PHI3800

形上學

2009-2010 | 下學期
哲學主修
T 03-04, Tuto
TCW 201, TSA
劉國英

PHI 3800 Metaphysics 形上學

評分方法：期終試 45%; 導修 25%; 書面報告 30%

授課語言 ：粵語 , 附英語

課程大綱 :

一）引言：形上學的當代厄運與歷史回溯

二）形上學發問的奠基性開端：巴門尼德斯「存在就是不變」之論旨

三）存在 (being) 與表象 (appearance) 的對揚：柏拉圖「存在就是理型」之學說

四）存在與變化的探究：亞里士多德「存在就是實體」之理論

五）思維作為確認存在的法則 (thinking as the principle of affirmation of being) ：笛卡兒與主體性形上學的興起

六）休謨對形上學的挑戰

七）客觀知識的可能性與人類理性的界限：康德與形上學的再出發

八）形上學與絕對知識的追索：黑格爾的「辯證法體系」

九）尼采對西方形上學的總體批判及其後果：人之形上學性向的再認識

十） 總結：有沒有所謂「後形上學」的時代？

基本參考書

A. 原始資料 ：

  1. Hoy, Ronald C. & Oaklander, L. Nathan (eds.). Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings , Belmont , California : Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1991.
  2. De George, Richard T. (ed.) Classical and Contemporary Metaphysics: A Source Book , New York : Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962.
  3. Drennen, D. A. (ed.), A Modern Introduction to Metaphysics: Readings from Classic and Contemporary Sources , New York : The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962.
  4. Plato, The Republic , Eng. trans. Desmond Lee, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2nd ed. 1974, additional revisions 1987.
  5. Descartes, The Philosophical Writings of Descartes , Vol. II, Eng. trans. J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff & D. Murdoch, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
  6. Leibniz, Selections , ed. Philip P. Wiener, New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951.
  7. Nietzsche, F. Twilight of the Idols , Eng. trans. Richard Polt, Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Co., Inc., 1997.
  8. Merleau-Ponty, M. Sense and Non-Sense , Eng. trans. Hubert L. Dreyfus and Patricia A. Dreyfus, Evanston , Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1964.

B. 其他參考資料 ：

  1. Adorno, Theodor W. Metaphysics: Concepts and Problems , Eng. trans. E. Jephcott, Cambridge : Polity Press, 2000.
  2. Beck, L. J. The Metaphysics of Descartes , Oxford : Clarenton Press, 1965.
  3. Cristaudo, Wayne. The Metaphysics of Science and Freedom. From Descartes to Kant to Hegel , Aldershot : Avebury, 1991.
  4. Dougherty, Kenneth F. Metaphysics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Being, New York : Graymoor Press, 1965.
  5. Heidegger, Martin. An Introduction to Metaphysic s , New Eng. trans. G. Fried and R. Polt, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000.
  6. Heidegger, Martin. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics , Eng. trans. Richard Taft, Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1990.
  7. Heidegger, Martin. “The Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics”, in Identity and Difference , Eng. trans. J. Stambaugh , New York : Harper & Row, 1969, pp. 42-76.
  8. Houlgate, Stephen. Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  9. Korner, Stephan. Metaphysics: Its Structure and Function , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.
  10. Lefranc, Jean. La metaphysique , Paris: Armand Colin, 1998.
  11. Parkinson, G. H. R. (ed.) The Renaissance and 17 th Century Rationalism ( Routledge History of Philosophy Vol. 4 ), London & New York : Routledge, 1993.
  12. Saville, Anthony. Leibniz and the Monadology, London & New York : Routledge, 2000.
  13. Solomon, Robert C. & Higgins, Kathleen M. (ed.) The Age of German Idealism ( Routledge History of Philosophy Vol. 6 ), London & New York : Routledge, 1993.
  14. 曾仰如 編著：《形上學》，台 北 : 台灣商務印書館， 1971 。
  15. 黃慶明：《形上學講義》， 台北 : 洪葉文化事業有限公司， 2000 。

• 每章均另有相關講授大綱及附加參考資料

 

導修閱讀材料 ：

    1. Plato, The Republic , Bk VI & VII, 502c-521b, Eng. trans. Desmond Lee, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 2nd ed. 1974, pp. 239-264.
    2. i. Aristotle, “The study of Metapysics”, in Drennen, A Modern Introduction to Metaphysics: Readings from Classic and Contemporary Sources , pp. 29-35.
      ii. Aristotle, “The Nature and Function of Metphysics”, in De George (ed.), Classical and Contemporary Metaphysics : A Source Book , pp. 4-7.
      iii. Aristotle, “Being and Substance”, in Drennen, A Modern Introduction to Metaphysics: Readings from Classic and Contemporary Sources , pp. 363-374.
    1. René Descartes: “1st, 2 nd , 3rd & 6th Meditations”, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes , Vol. II, op. cit ., pp. 12- 36, 50-62.
    2. David Hume: “Of Personal Identity, in De George, Richard T. (ed.) Classical and Contemporary Metaphysics: A Source Book , pp. 216-224.
  3. Immanuel Kant: “Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics”, excepts, in Hoy & Oaklander (ed.), Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings , pp. 424-449.
  4. G. W. F. Hegel: “Excepts from the Introduction and Logic Section of Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline ”, in Hoy & Oaklander (ed.), Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings , pp. 450-466.
    1. Nietzsche, From Twilight of the Idols , Eng. trans. Richard Polt, pp. 12-24, 30-37.
    2. Merleau-Ponty, M. “The Metaphysical in Man”, in Sense and Non-Sense , pp. 83-98.