| Phi 220 Fall 2015 |
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In preparing for the exam, secure your understanding of each of the ideas below. To be well prepared, you should
• understand each idea (or group of ideas)
• connect it with a philosopher, and
• be familiar with that philosopher’s basic discussion of it.
The actual questions on the test may take a number of forms. You may be asked to provide a definition of a concept or to explain a distinction. You may be asked to identify the philosopher with whom a distinctive idea is associated (or the philosopher who wrote a given passage concerning the idea). You may asked to write a short essay explaining a philosopher’s views concerning one of these ideas or to compare the views of two or more philosophers regarding these ideas. In short, while the list does not indicate the format of the test, it does indicate the material on which you will be tested. You can expect some freedom of choice in the questions you answer but not enough to enable you to safely ignore more than a few items on this list.
In formulating this list, I have chosen terms or phrases that appear in the text, but some appear more prominently than others. If, as you are studying, you have any doubt about what I have in mind or where discussions of these ideas appear, I’ll be happy to supply more information.
Topics
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Burke & Kant (3/4) • beautiful vs. sublime Kant (3/14) • taste vs. genius Kant (3/16) • ideal • aesthetic idea Schiller (3/18) • sensuous drive / form drive / play drive Schelling (3/21) • art product as the resolution of a contradiction • genius, art, and poetry Hegel (3/23) • symbolic / classical • architecture / sculpture Hegel (3/25) • romantic art (vs. symbolic and classical) • painting / music / poetry Danto (3/28) • the theories IT and RT • the is of artistic identification Danto (3/30) • the artworld Schopenhauer (4/1) • aesthetic contemplation • music as an objectification of will Nietzsche (4/4) • Dionysian vs. Apollonian |
Nietzsche (4/6) • aesthetic Socratism Nietzsche (4/8) • columbarium of concepts • the rational man vs. the intuitive man Heidegger (4/11) • truth setting itself to work Heidegger (4/13) • world vs. earth • rift-design (Riss) Goodman (4/15) • density • repleteness • fit Tolstoy (4/18) • art • religious art vs. universal art Croce (4/20) • intuition = expression ≠ communication Greenberg (4/22) • avant-garde vs. kitsch Benjamin (4/25) • aura and cult value vs. exhibition value Carroll (4/27) • mass art Carroll (4/29) • type vs. token • template vs. interpretation |