Got the course outline today... here's the lecture programme Aga... any good?
1. Introduction and Plato and Aristotle's images of the self
2. Images of the self in ancient Epicurean and Stoic philosophies
3. Hadot and Foucault on ancient Greek and Roman ascesis
4. Foucault, Hadot and the emergence of Christian ascesis
5. Case study: self examination in Seneca and Saint Augustine
6. Hume: anti-rationalist and worldly epicurean
7. Kant's rationalist critique of Hume and image of man
8. Kant: the subject of obligation and responsibility for evil
9. Hadot, Foucault and Hunter on Kant and modern ethical culture
10. The 'aesthetic' turn in 18th and 19th century European ethical culture
11. Schiller: self as 'dialectical' work of art
12. D.I.Y. ethics: Foucault's 'aesthetics of existence' and it's critics
1. Introduction and Plato and Aristotle's images of the self
2. Images of the self in ancient Epicurean and Stoic philosophies
3. Hadot and Foucault on ancient Greek and Roman ascesis
4. Foucault, Hadot and the emergence of Christian ascesis
5. Case study: self examination in Seneca and Saint Augustine
6. Hume: anti-rationalist and worldly epicurean
7. Kant's rationalist critique of Hume and image of man
8. Kant: the subject of obligation and responsibility for evil
9. Hadot, Foucault and Hunter on Kant and modern ethical culture
10. The 'aesthetic' turn in 18th and 19th century European ethical culture
11. Schiller: self as 'dialectical' work of art
12. D.I.Y. ethics: Foucault's 'aesthetics of existence' and it's critics
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