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Politics of the City: Plato’s Republic
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY
From the ancient world to contemporary debates, the work of Plato is foundational in Western philosophy. As Alfred North Whitehead once quipped, “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” In particular, Plato’s Republicremains a vital touchstone for contemporary political and moral philosophers trying to understand everything from the very...
Kant’s Critical Aesthetics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 75 Broad St, New York, NY
Art was anything but peripheral to Kant’s philosophical project. In judging a thing to be beautiful, Kant maintained, we bridge “the great gulf” of nature and human freedom, and prepare ourselves to “love something, even nature, without interest”—that is, exercise moral judgment. Immensely influential in its time, the so-called “third Critique” inspired and gave energy to both German Idealism, which attempted to provide a rational...
Foundations of Modern Philosophy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY
Long before the development of modern academic and scientific disciplines, the early modern scientific revolution was exemplified by “natural philosophers”—polymaths like Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes who saw no clear distinction between philosophical, scientific, social, and other forms of inquiry. The scientific revolution, born partly from the insights they provided, was also a philosophical revolution,...
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Kant: Metaphysics and Morality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 30 Irving Pl, New York, NY
Kant’s “Critical philosophy,” which begins with the appearance of the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, is an attempt to understand the total scope and limits of human reason, science, and morality. Moreover, he argues that the purpose of philosophy is to answer the fundamental questions that emerge from such an attempt: “What can we know? What should we do? What can we hope for?” In other words: Can we really know what reality...
Lived Experience: An Introduction to Phenomenology
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 75 Broad St, New York, NY
What is phenomenology? Drawing on lived, first-person experience, phenomenology is the attempt to analyze and understand the very structures of human experience and consciousness. What are the elements of perception, and why do different people, different subjects, perceive things differently? What’s universal about consciousness? In what ways do individual identity, circumstance, history, language, and memory condition lived experience—and thus...
Heidegger: Truth, Technology, and Poetry
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd St, New York, NY
Uncover the essence of humanity in modernity as we explore the meaning of being, the impact of scientific and technological revolutions, and the diminishing power of art and poetry to reveal truth. Join us as we delve into Heidegger's later works and grapple with the questions that arise in an era dominated by scientific truth.
On the Heights of Despair: an Introduction to E.M. Cioran
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 200 East 38th Street, New York, NY
Delve into the mind of philosopher Emil Cioran, as he explores themes of despair, doubt, and skepticism in a world without God. Join this thought-provoking course and discover Cioran's aphoristic style and its connection to his unconventional philosophy. Explore his life, influences, and the meaning of existence in this engaging exploration of a philosopher of unremitting despair.
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy Why should we be good? What makes an action moral—and how can we know? If an act is moral here and now, is it necessarily moral there and then? Is goodness in some way connected to happiness? And, what constitutes a moral judgment—is it an exercise of reason, or merely an expression of feeling? In this class, we’ll investigate the nature and scope of morality as it’s been...
French Existentialism: Beauvoir and Sartre
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
For Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the fundamental philosophical problem of the modern age was answering Friedrich Nietzsche’s dictum: god was dead, and so was, as a consequence, traditional western conceptions of morality, justice, and truth itself. In the cafes of occupied and post-war Paris, Sartre, Beauvoir, and their cohort of fellow existentialists attempted to meet Nietzsche’s challenge: to reimagine the basis of morality...
Aristotle: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Order of Nature
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Introduction to Aristotle: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Order of Nature For much of Western history, Aristotle was known simply as “the philosopher.” Systematic and extraordinarily wide-ranging, Aristotle’s thought encompasses everything from metaphysics to politics to psychology to logic to poetic tragedy—and even plant biology. A student of Plato, Aristotle originated a philosophy very different in orientation from Platonic idealism, one...
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
It is difficult to imagine a more ambitious or even hubristic philosophy than that of G.W.F. Hegel. Even Hegel’s most contemptuous critics agreed with his faithful disciples on one count: he simply could not be ignored. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that much of 19th Century European intellectual history is a story about those who were with and against Hegel’s “Absolute Idealism,” grounded in a logic he called “dialectics.” Marxism,...
Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and controversial thinkers in the western intellectual tradition. He aimed to philosophize “with a hammer,” to demolish the philosophical tradition founded by Socrates and Plato and slaughter its most sacred cows. Central to that tradition is the value placed on truth, reason, objectivity, and a moral system based on altruism and self-sacrifice. In contrast to forming the bedrock of a stable political...
Intro to Kierkegaard: Existentialism, Faith & Death
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Full Course Name: Introduction to Kierkegaard: Existentialism, Faith, and Death Søren Kierkegaard—Hamlet’s equally melancholic Danish counterpart—is frequently regarded as the father of existentialism for his exploration of concepts such as subjectivity, anxiety, and absurdity. This course will be an introduction to the main ideas of the nineteenth-century philosopher and theologian. How did Kierkegaard—through puzzles, pseudonyms, and...
Kant’s Critical Philosophy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Kant’s “Critical philosophy,” which begins with the appearance of the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, is an attempt to understand no less than the scope and limits of human reason, science, and morality. He wrote that the purpose of philosophy is to answer the following fundamental questions: “What can we know? What should we do? What can we hope for?” In other words: can we really know what reality is like, independent...
Origins of German Romanticism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Are art and philosophy irreconcilable? Since Plato, western thinkers have tended to uphold philosophy as the domain of reason and objective inquiry, and art as belonging to the sphere of the non-rational—as the instigator, even, of counter-rational emotions and passions, subjective flights of fancy and imagination. For the members of the so-called Frühromantik, or early German romantic movement, the truth was exactly the opposite: Art...
Truth and Beauty: Kant’s Critical Aesthetics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Aesthetics is central to Kant’s philosophical project. In judging a thing to be beautiful, Kant maintained, we bridge “the great gulf” between nature and human freedom, and prepare ourselves to “love something, even nature, without interest”—that is, to exercise moral judgment. Immensely influential in its time, the so-called “third Critique” inspired and gave energy to both German Idealism, which attempted to provide a rational...
What is Analytic Philosophy?
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY
In the early 20th century, a new generation of thinkers came to believe that European philosophy had reached a dead end. Reacting to what they held was the obfuscatory language and non-sensical direction of post-Kantian philosophy, Cambridge philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore set out to revolutionize philosophy through a fundamental rethinking of its methods and purposes. Their work, and its outgrowths in the philosophies of mathematics,...
Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Uncover the transformative power of language and explore the metaphilosophical implications of Ludwig Wittgenstein's groundbreaking work in this thought-provoking course. Discover a new perspective on the nature of language and the mind, and embark on a journey to unravel the mysteries of philosophy.
Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.” So began Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract, one of the first modern meditations on democracy, autonomy, and self-government, and the rampant inequality found in human society. Standing uneasily amongst his Enlightenment peers, Rousseau disagreed vociferously with his fellow philosophes that reason was a ready tool for human emancipation and justice. Rather, man...
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