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PHIL 3820
Weekly assignments:

  1. Aug. 27: Utilitarianism, ch. 4, paras. 4-6 (from "But it has not, by this alone..." to "...even in intensity").
  2. Sept. 3: James Mill, Analysis, vol. ii, pp. 262-263, in footnote 49: from the last para. on p. 262 (starting "A motive is something which moves...") through the second full para. on 263 ("...is the end of action").
  3. Sept. 10: U 5:30 (Gray pp. 193f; CW X:253f, the para. starting, "To take another example from a subject..."); you may find it helpful to read paras. 27-29.
  4. Sept. 17: Analysis, vol. ii, pp. 313 (from the middle para., "When a man acts from habit...") to 314 (end of last full para., up to "...the idea is similar"). (FYI: this is John Stuart Mill quoting his father's "Fragment on Mackintosh".)
  5. Sept. 24: Autobiography, 5:6 (the para. starting "The experiences of this period..."
  6. Oct. 1: System, VI:ii:2, 2nd para. (bridging pp. 837-838).
  7. Oct. 8: Subjection 1:18 (Gray ed. pp. 493f, para. beginning "Neither does it avail anything to say...").
  8. Oct. 15 (due at the usual time): Bonus outline: either Nehamas, Nietzsche: Life as Literature, para. bridging pp. 62-63. or Katsafanas, Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism, from the last para. on p. 39 (starting "So what's special...") through the second para. on p. 41 ("...that are constitutive of agency").
  9. Oct. 22: System, VI:x:7, 3rd and 4th paras (these are the top two paragraphs on p. 926).

    10. From here on out, the weekly assignments are microcommentaries.

  10. Oct. 29: GM 2:12-13.
  11. Nov. 5: BGE 19.
  12. Nov. 12: BGE 251.
  13. Nov. 19: Z I.4 ("On the Despisers of the Body").
  14. Nov. 26: CW 7, para. (in the Kaufmann translation) starting "For the present I merely dwell...").
  15. Dec. 3: TI, "The Problem of Socrates," sec. 2, starting at "The consensus of the sages..." (in The Portable Nietzsche, this is on p. 474).
  16. Dec. 10: EH, "Why I Write Such Good Books," sec. 4, 1st para. in Kaufmann, on p. 721 ("This is also the point for a general remark..."). Alternatively, if you're feeling ambitious: EH, "Why I Am So Clever," sec. 9, first 5 paras. (up to "I myself do not want to become different").