Godfrey, Joseph, SJ
Plan for the course, as of 24 March 2009
PHIL 484 Philosophical Anthropology: Godfrey
This course in philosophical anthropology considers social and personal human existence from the viewpoint of hope and its alternatives: human cognition and language, action, and society have a structure of hope. Texts and approaches include those of classical, phenomenological, analytic, existential, modern and postmodern traditions. Further information is available at www.sju.edu/~jgodfrey/loyola_philanthro.html.
Readings, as of July 20, 2009
Godfrey, Joseph J. A Philosophy of Human Hope. (Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol. 9. Dordrecht; Boston; Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987); second edition in draft form.
Buber, Martin. and Thou. A New Translation with a Prologue “I and You” and Notes by Walter Kaufmann (originally 1970 for Kaufmann translation). New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1996, paperbound; ISBN 0684717255. $14.
Marcel, Gabriel. Homo Viator: Introduction to a Metaphysic of Hope. Translated by Emma Craufurd and Paul Seaton. South Bend: St. Augustine Press, 2009 (originally 1944). Paperbound; ISBN-13: 978-1-58731-361-5; Publication date: August 15, 2009. $20.
Pasnau, Robert. Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologiae Ia, 75–89. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Paperbound; ISBN 13: 9780521001892. New, $50.
Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. Paperbound; 0-674-82426-1. New, $28.