RN450//PH483 Sign-up and schedule of short presentations

(Undergraduates only)

Thursday, January 25

Presentation 1: Enlightenment critique of religion (e.g. Locke, Toland).

Presentation 2: Hume, Dialogues concerning natural religion

Thursday, January 1

Presentation 3: Spinoza’s Critique of Religion in the Theologico-Political Treatise

Presentation 4: On Mendelssohn, Jerusalem or on religious power and Judaism,

Thursday, February 8

Presentation 5: State and religion according to Hobbes

Presentation 6: State and religion according to Rousseau

Thursday, February 15

Presentation 7: Faith and knowledge in medieval religion (Muslim, Jewish)

Presentation 8: Faith and knowledge in medieval religion (Christian)

Thursday, March 1

Presentation 9: The great debate on pantheism (Lessing, Jacobi, Mendelssohn)

Presentation 10: Herder’s On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry

Thursday, March 8

Presentation 11: Religion and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity (Epicureanism, Stoa)

Presentation 12: Religion and Philosophy in Roman Antiquity (esp. Cicero)

Thursday, March 22

Presentation 13: Religion and Philosophy in Philo of Alexandria

Presentation 14: Neoplatonism

Thursday, March 29

Presentation 15: Psychology of Religion

Presentation 16: Freud’s Critique of Religion

Thursday, April 5

Presentation 17: Hölderlin

Presentation 18: Fichte

Thursday, April 12

Presentation 19: Schelling’s early philosophy

Presentation 20: Late Schelling (philosophy of revelation)

Thursday, April 19

Presentation 21: Hegel’s philosophy of right

Presentation 22: Left-wing Hegelianism (Marx, Engels)

Thursday, April 26

Presentation 23: Feuerbach

Presentation 24: Nietzsche