Session 1
I. CLASS OVERVIEW
II. DEFINING OUR TERMS
III. BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900)
- Topics: Class Overview, Defining Our Terms, Nietzsche Biography
I. CLASS OVERVIEW
- Using Zoom for Class Discussions
- Navigating the Course Website and Syllabus Review
- Questions to consider as you read in preparation for class discussion
II. DEFINING OUR TERMS
- What is "ethics?"
- What do we mean by "the human condition?" How is it different from "human nature?"
- Why discuss Friedrich Nietzsche and Emmanuel Levinas within the context of these terms? Why now (within our present historical context)?
III. BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900)
- Youth & Family (1844–1868)
- University Studies & Early Influences
- Military Service & Professorship at Basel (1869–1878)
- Declining Health
- Publications & Life as An Independent Philosopher (1879–1888)
- Mental Illness & Death (1889–1900)