PHIL 2130 Lecture Notes - Blue Jasmine, Rhapsode
19 Feb 2014
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Midterm essay 5/6 pages on set subjects. Bigger essay 10 pages, more substantial, set topics. Books: course kit, 2 comic dialogues, aristotle, poetics, short introduction. Why a work is successful giving some kinds of reasons. Both the arts and philosophy are historical traditions. That is to say, they are traditions that extend deep into historical time and works created within the tradition strike attitudes towards works from the past. It can be an attitude of stressing continuity or it can be an attitude stressing a break or difference from that past. Either way, both the arts and philosophy pay regard to the past. Hence the rough structure of this course is chronological, moving from past to present. Also stressed was the dialectical character of philosophy, laid out clearly in works that take the dialogue form, but also discernible in works of discursive prose. To grasp the dialectical structure of works in the discursive format some reconstruction is needed.
