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clude classic works of Rousseau, Kant, Thoreau and others, along with modern writers in ecology such as Arne Næss and less conventional works such as graphic novels and films. In observing the physical and psychological interaction between man and nature, several central themes arise, including the debate between dominating nature, the regression to a natural state and the definition of the state of nature. Professor Gayraud.
PHILOSOPHY OF ANIMAL AND MAN Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne This course attempts to analyze the relationship between animal and man. Many questions are raised, such as that of the differences between the soul of man and the soul of animals, their intellects, the mind-body connection, progression between the animal world and the human world, diversity in the human and animal worlds, and the effect of diversity on our definitions of “animal” or “man”. Answers to these questions are provided from readings from Aristotle, Montaigne, Descartes and Darwin. Professors Paultre and Marmasse.
PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne This course follows the evolution of theories and perception of the question of love. Through an examination of individualism and intimacy, love in the modern age is seen through Sartre’s theory of impossible love in L’Être et le néant, and Levinas’ concept of fleeting love. Three types of love: Eros (Plato’s Banquet), Philia (Aristotle and Spinoza) and Agapé (St. Augustine) are seen. The idea of Amor Fati according to Nietzsche is also discussed as is the topic of love of ideas (philosophy itself) and links with history, literature and sociology. Professors Tavoillot and Riquier.
*GENERAL PHILOSOPHY: BEAUTY Institut Catholique de Paris Beauty is not only an aesthetic quality, but also a concept generating philosophical dilemma. Contemplating beauty philosophically can at once elevate man and keep him rooted to the living earth, where beauty resides. Beginning with Plato and ending with the French phenomenologist Henri Maldiney, this course pulls from the history of philosophy to demonstrate that the subject of beauty, far from being an exception in philosophical thought, is ac182
tually the norm across generations of philosophers. Professor De Gramont et al.
PHILOSOPHY OF ART: WHAT IS MODERN ART? Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne This course examines the foundations and development of modern art within the Western tradition, specifically the imitation of the antique model in the visual arts since the 18th century, and the definitive split with the past in the 19th century. Modernity’s aesthetic is seen as a vision of the future, the avant-garde. Approaches to the critical works of Diderot, Hegel, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Jauss, Compagnon, Fumaroli, and Starobinski, among others. Professor Darriulat.
KANT: CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne This course is taught as a deepening of a principal course of modern philosophy focused on the idea of the critique. It consists in a close reading integral to the masterwork of Kant. It is asked of students if not to read the work in all its details, then to at least acquire a vision of the work as a whole and to understand its overarching ideas. For this, a reading of Prolegomena or, at least, a reading of Cohen's summary, is indispensable. More generally, the course attempts to understand how the first Critique is an essential source for contemporary thought, whether that be idealist, phenomenological, or analytic. Professor Cerutti.
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY: MARX, NIETZSCHE AND FREUD Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne This course studies the question of civilization and culture in the works of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, beginning with a Marxist analysis of Capitalist society and the concept of alienation. European nihilism is also covered, as is the Freudian concept of societal repression. Professor Marmasse.
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: THE CONCEPT OF A PRIORI Université de Paris Ouest - Nanterre-La Défense One of the distinguishing characteristics of analytic philosophy, from Frege to Quine or Kripke, is to put
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