Introduction to German Idealism: from Kant to Hegel
Monday Lecture
1. Introduction to German Idealism - Kants basic
views
2. Introduction to German idealism - Hegels
basic views
A. Immanuel Kant
3. Critique of Pure reason: the basic problems
of human knowledge
4. Transcendental Aesthetics: Empfindung, space
and time
*5. Transcendental Logic: concepts as structures
6. Transcendental Deduction: the transcendental
Ego and the Grundsatz
7. Appearance and Thing-in-itself: the meta-
physics of transcendental philosophy
8. Kantian ethics: outline of the Critique of
Practical Reason
9. The argument for the categorical imperative in
the Critique of Practical Reason
*10. The Postulates of Morality
11. Kants transformation of Religion into
Morality
12. Critique of Aesthetic Judgment - outline
13. Judgments of taste and disinterestedness
B. Friedrich Hegel
14. Hegel's system of thought - a 20th century
perspective
15. The Phenomenology, it's aims and method
according to the Preface
16. Structure of the Phenomenology as a whole -
outline of the argument
17. Consciousness
18. Self-Consciousness (introduction)
19. The dialectics of self-consciousness
20. The Phenomenological perspective on the
Enlightenment
21. The System or Encyclopedia of
Philosophical Sciences: outline
22. Logic (being, Essence, Concept)
23. Philosophy of Freedom: Lectures on the
Philosophy of Right
24. The Philosophy of History
C. Assessment
25. The anthropocentric turn: the fate of German
Idealism in the 19th century
26. Hegel in contemporary philosophy: from
Kojève to Zizek
Friday reading
1. What is Enlightenment? (Kant); Dialog on
Freedom (Voltaire)
2. Phenomenology - Preface
3. Critique of Pure Reason: Prefaces; B10 - B 30
4. Critique of Pure Reason B33 - B73
*5. Critique of Pure Reason B74 - B116
6. Critique of Pure Reason B117 - B169; B193-
197
7. Critique of Pure Reason B294-B315
8. Critique of Practical Reason 3 - 32
9. Critique of Practical Reason 35 - 71
*10. Critique of Practical Reason 192 - 241
11. Religion within the limits of pure reason
12. Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, XI - LVIII
13. Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, 3 - 61
14. Syllabus text
15. Phenomenology: 9 - 59
16. Syllabus text
17. Phenomenology: 79 - 133
18. Phenomenology: 133-150
19. Phenomenology: 151 - 171
20. Phenomenology: 383 - 413
21. Encyclopedia Introduction par 1 - 18, 572 -
577
22. Encyclopedia par.20-25; 84-88; 111-
114;159-165; 236-244
23. Encyclopedia: par. 513-552
24. Phil. Of History III, 3, The New Era.
25. Karl Löwith: Hegel and Hegelianism(1931)
26. Kojève: Slavoj Zizek: The Ticklish Subject,
p. 70 - 125
Note: I might just skip the lectures marked with an * to give some extra time for the assessment.

Every week I offer an extra hour to read and interpret various texts.