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DECONSTRUCTION: Should metaphysics be deconstructed? (3 Credits)

Pierre Aubenque, Ph.D.

Description: This course exams the conflict between metaphysics and deconstruction. Looking at the ability for self criticism within the metaphysical view of the self, questions of freedom within the self seen through a metaphysical lens to question its own construction. Looking at Plato as a heavy meta-physician who then Aristotle rejected, and Immanuel Kant furthered this rejection, but within metaphysics possibilities is this self-criticism. Arguing that it is not necessarily always a contest between deconstruction and metaphysics, or that deconstructions only job is not the destruction of metaphysics. Pierre argues that metaphysics itself carries the tradition of deconstruction within its own tradition.

Objectives: This course aims to open new questions and possibilities when examining the works of Aristotle and Immanuel Kant through the lens of Pierre Aubenque. At the end of the course students will be well informed in background and contemporary debates surrounding the roles of deconstruction and metaphysics in academia.

Learning Outcomes: At the end of this seminar students will have an enhanced understanding of Aristotle, metaphysics and deconstruction. Through a combination of engaged classroom discussions and previous student readings this classroom will push key questions forward in new directions. This course is key to students dissertation projects.

Course Schedule:

Module One: Introduction

Module Two: Plato

Module Three: Aristotle

Module Four: Kant

Required Readings:

Aubenque, Pierre. "On Friendship in Aristotle" in: The South Atlantic quarterly. Vol. 97, No. 1, 1998.

Aubenque, Pierre. Problèmes aristotéliciens. 1. Vrin. 2009. Paperback, 416 pages, Language French, ISBN: 2711621537. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Aristotle and Richard McKeon (Editor). The Basic Works of Aristotle. Modern Library Classics. September 11, 2001. Paperback, 1520 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0375757996. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.