BASC20303 - Basic Program Year Two: Spring
Course Description
Examine philosophical and psychological ideas about human nature and morality in this Year 2 Spring Seminar. Students will dive into Michel de Montaigne's The Essays: A Selection, Blaise Pascal's Pensées, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, and Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. In the Tutorial section of the course, students will engage in a close reading of three books of the Bible: Genesis, Job, and Matthew.
Course Outline
For specific dates, see at right under each Section: SCHEDULE AND LOCATION. Reading schedule is identical across all Sections.
Seminar
| Week | Seminar |
|---|---|
| 1 | Montaigne,“To the Reader,” “On Idleness,” “On Fear,” “To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die,” “That it is Madness to Judge the True and the False from our own Capacities” |
| 2 | Montaigne,“On the Cannibals,” “On Conscience,” “On Cruelty,” “On Experience” |
| 3 | Pascal, Pensées Section One, I-X, XV (pp 3-46, 58-66) |
| 4 | Pascal, Pensées Section Two, I-II, XXI-XXV, XXX (pp 115-127, 181-225, 247-250) |
| 5 | Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Preface and Essay 1 |
| 6 | Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Essay 2 |
| 7 | Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Essay 3 |
| 8 | Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Concluded |
| 9 | Freud, Introductory Lectures 16-18 |
| 10 | Freud, Introductory Lectures 19 and 21-22 |
Tutorial
| Week | Tutorial |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis (1–5) |
| 2 | Genesis (1–11) |
| 3 | Genesis (12–36) |
| 4 | Genesis (37–50) |
| 5 | Job (1–2) |
| 6 | Job (1–32:1) |
| 7 | Job (32:2–42) |
| 8 | Matthew (1–7) |
| 9 | Matthew (1–20) |
| 10 | Matthew (1–28) |
Required Texts
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Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-0140446029
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Pascal, Pensées, Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-0140446456
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Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, Vintage Press, ISBN 978-0679724629
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Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Liveright, ISBN 978-0871401182
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The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-019528380
Purchase
Books are available using the Textbook order form from the Gleacher Center Bookstore online, or by using the ISBN number to order the correct edition elsewhere.
Notes
Online registration closes Friday, March 15 at 5 pm CT.
You will receive an invitation to join the Canvas site for the course a week before the class begins. The Zoom link for the course will be in Canvas. For more information about Canvas, please see our Remote Learning Resources page.
Prerequisites
Students must have completed at least two quarters of Year One, as well as Autumn and Winter quarters of Year Two.
Applies Toward the Following Certificates
- Basic Program of Liberal Education For Adults : Basic Program Core Curriculum