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PHIL 5193/6193
Weekly assignments:

  1. Aug. 24 (for students who want to get an early start): BGE 56 (abbreviations ).
  2. Aug. 31: Either GM I:13, the para. (in the Kaufmann translation: no paras. in the German) starting "To demand of strength..." or GM II:12-13.
  3. Sept. 7: BGE 12 (but remember the no-religion requirement).
  4. Sept. 14: GS 360.
  5. Sept. 21: Either Z.I.4 ("On the Despisers of the Body") or Z.I.15 ("On the Thousand and One Goals").
  6. Sept. 28: Either GS 111 or GS 121.
  7. Oct. 5: GS 374.
  8. Oct. 12 (due at the usual time): Bonus microcommentary: either GS 372 or GS 373.
  9. Oct. 19: GS 120 (if you read Foucault over break) or GS 299 (if you read Nehamas).
  10. Oct. 26: HTH I:35 ("Advantages of psychological observation"), or D 103 ("There are two kinds of deniers of morality").
  11. Nov. 2: TI 2.2 (the second section of "The Problem of Socrates," starting "The irreverent thought...").
  12. Nov. 9: CW 7, 2nd English para. in Kaufmann's translation (on BW p. 626, starting "For the present... ")
  13. Nov. 16: AC 54.
  14. Nov. 23: EH, "Why I Am So Wise," last English para. of sec. 1, and first English para. of sec. 2.
  15. Nov. 30: BT, last para. of sec. 17 plus first para. of sec. 18.
  16. Dec. 7: either UM 2, sec. 1, 2nd para. ("If happiness, if reaching out..."; pp. 61f), or UM 2.3, first three paras. (from "History thus belongs..." up to "...the dust of bibliographical minutiae"; pp. 72-75).