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Poslední úprava: UFRHILL (26.09.2014)
This is a course suitable for all students embarked on master's and bachelor's programmes in philosophy. Non-specialists are also welcome, but should be aware that the course may assume some basic knowledge of early-modern philosophy and that they will need to consult with the teacher about the written assignment. |
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Poslední úprava: UFRHILL (29.09.2014)
The Course requirements are as follows: (i) Students should attend the course each week. More than three absences over the semester will mean that one is not eligible for the grade. (ii) Students will be asked to do one piece of written work, an essay of roughly 2,000 words on one subject from the course. The essay should show both knowledge of Berkeley's philosophical position as well as the student's own argued standpoint. The essay title and subject should be approved by the instructor before the student embarks on writing. The essay should be handed in on paper by Monday, December 1st, 2014. Electronic versions will not be acceptable, nor will work handed in later than the deadline. |
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Poslední úprava: UFRHILL (29.09.2014)
The central themes of the course will include the following: 1. The views of Descartes, Hobbes, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Locke on spirit and self-knowledge. 2. Why Berkeley thinks that we have no idea of spirit. 3. The positive account of self-knowledge in Berkeley's early philosophy. 4. Berkeley's opposition to abstraction and his explanation of general thought. 5. The theory of notions as an account of fundamental intellectual concepts. 6. Was Berkeley ever an empiricist? 7. Berkeley's developing view about the notion of divine spirit. 8. The neo-Platonist theory of spirit in Siris.
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Secondary literature: Talia Mae Bettcher, Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit, 2007 John Russell Roberts, A Metaphysics for the Mob, 2007 Kennetth Winkler, Berkeley: An Interpretation, 1989 |