Spring 2015Revised Course Schedule (2/2/2015)

Week 8

3/3 The Categorical Imperative: Groundwork 4:406-21Recommended Reading: Guyer Ch. 5 Universal Law and Humanity as an End in Itself and Sedgwick pp. 83-167Quiz 73/6 The Categorical Imperative Continued: Groundwork 4:421-45Recommended Reading: Guyer, Ch. 5 Confirmation of the Categorical Imperative and Autonomy and the Realm of Ends and Sedgwick pp. 83-167 again

Week 9

3/10 Free Will and the Categorical Imperative: Groundwork 4:446-63Recommended Reading: Guyer, Ch. 6 The Moral Law and Freedom of theWill and Sedgwick pp. 168-198Quiz 8 and 2nd Paper Assigned3/13 The Fact of Reason: Critique of Practical Reason 5:3-50Recommended Reading: Kleingeld Moral Consciousness and the Fact of Reason in Reath and Timmermann, and Timmermann Reversal or Retreat? in Reath and Timmermann

Week 10

3/17 NO CLASS and NO OFFICE HOURS (Spring Recess)3/20 NO CLASS and NO OFFICE HOURS (Spring Recess)

Week 11

3/24 The Feeling of Respect: Critique of Practical Reason 5:72-89Recommended Reading: Engstrom The Triebfeder of Pure Practical Reason in Reath and TimmermannQuiz 93/27 The Highest Good: Critique of Pure Reason A804-19/B832-47 and Critique ofPractical Reason 5:107-48Recommended Reading: Guyer Ch. 6 Immortality and the Existence of God and Watkins The Antinomy of Practical Reason in Reath and Timmermann2nd Paper Due

Week 12

3/31 The Pantheism Controversy: What does it mean to orient Oneself inThinking? 8:133-46 and Critique of the Power of Judgment 5:442-74Recommended Reading: Wood Translators Introduction to What does itmean to orient Oneself in Thinking in Religion and Rational TheologyQuiz 104/3 NO CLASS and NO OFFICE HOURS (Easter Break)

Week 13

4/7 The Problem of Evil: On the Miscarriage of all philosophical Trials inTheodicy 8:253-71Quiz 114/10 Introduction the Religion: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason6:1-14 and Conflict of the Faculties 7:5-11Recommended Reading: Pasternack, Ch. 2 and Wood, TranslatorsIntroduction to the Religion in Religion and Rational Theology

Week 14

4/14 Radical Evil: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason 6:15-53Recommended Reading: Pasternack, Ch. 3Quiz 12 and Final Exam Assigned4/17 NO CLASS and NO OFFICE HOURS (Instructor away at academic conference)

Week 15

4/21 Revolution of the Heart: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason6:54-89Recommended Reading: Pasternack, Ch. 4Quiz 134/24 The Church: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason 6:90-147Recommended Reading: Pasternack, Ch. 5Optional Service to God: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason 6:148-202Optional Recommended Reading: Pasternack, Ch. 6

Final Exam Due Date: 5/8/2015 at 3:30pm. Please submit a paper copy of the final exam to my departmental mailbox in Collins Hall (please also email a copy to bwinegar@fordham.edu). You may turn in the final exam earlier if you wish. Please note that I MUST receive a paper copy of the final exam.

The instructor reserves the right to modify the schedule at any time to accommodate class needs.