Modern Humanities Week 2: Rise (and fall?) of the Modern Conception of the Self

Who Are We?

• Answers from Modern Philosophers
• Bodies and Minds in Early Thought
• ...And Yet...
• Paying Attention to the Physical
• ...And Getting It Wrong
• John Donne, "To His Mistress Going to Bed" (Elegy 20)

The Rise of the Individual

• Mediaeval Bible: Glossa Ordinaria
• Modern Bible: Luther's Psalms, 1519
• The Rise of the Individual

Enlightenment

• Kant, "An Answer to the Question, 'What Is Enlightenment?'"
• Values of the Enlightenment I
• Values of the Enlightenment II
• Who's In and Who's Out?

Reading Questions for Sorrows of Young Werther