Syllabus
1. What is the question of ethics?
2. Plato's discovery of education and the just soul: school
3. Aristotle's ethics: the sought knowledge of the good life
4. Christian-Roman morality: will and love
5. Cartesian Subjectivity - Science and Will
6. Foundations of modern theory of law and politics - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
7. Hume and Kant - feelings and reason
8. Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka: machinery and the human being
9. The Problem of the Other and Otherness
10. University and machinery
11. Machinery and university
Annotation
Is it possible to show for contemporary wo/man that ethics is not only a doctrine of the good life, but that it belongs essentially to the being of wo/man? How does the ability to distinguish between good and evil belong to wo/man? And how do education and upbringing belong to ethics? Are they separate disciplines, or are they different aspects of the same movement? How does ethics change throughout history, and how does the meaning of education and upbringing change along with it? These are the questions that will guide our introduction to the basic problems and concepts of the question of ethics.