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Philosophy 35002.R
Nietzsche (Professor Nick Pappas)
This course is solely focused on the work of Nietzsche. Students will closely read three major works and one long essay by Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, The Genealogy of Morals , Beyond Good and Evil , and "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life." In addition, they will read portions of secondary texts that provide critical commentary on these works.
In particular, the course concerns the theme of morality in Nietzsche. Students will be asked to make connections between Nietzsche's treatment of causality and his ambivalent relationship with morality in his writings.
In order to engage these texts and think through Nietzsche's arguments, students will do assignments about of a Course Workbook designed to hone critical reading skills, interrogate Nietzsche's interpretations, and help them develop their own interpretations. The Workbook, to be turned in weekly for comment by Professor Pappas, contains among other activities, annotations, structured annotations (focusing on Nietzsche's language and style and techniques of persuasion), and disputable terms about which students will make notes and citations from the range of textual material addressing the disputed term that they read for the course.
In relation to this workbook, students will write two summaries and two, two-part papers (four papers). They will draw upon the content they have generated from their course Workbook, their readings, and course lectures to write these papers
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Philosophy 35002:
Nietzsche
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