About the Reading Group

The Reading Group was set up by the Society in early 2009 as a way of introducing ideas, theories, and texts otherwise not discussed within other society events. It allows for members (both of the society, and of the university) to meet and discuss particular articles and short-texts, and to examine key theories within many areas of philosophy.

The Reading Group meets every other Tuesday afternoon to discuss a set text/article. The reading for the next meeting is decided upon there and then, and an email containing the materials (or links to the articles) is sent out that evening (or the following day).

So far, we have read Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like To Be a Bat?", and S.E. Rosenbaum's "How To Be Dead and Not Care: A Defence of Epicurus", as well as David Lewis's "The Paradoxes of Time Travel". Our most recent text was "Existentialism and Humanism" by Sartre. You can find our latest readings below:

For November 17, 2009 - Friedrich Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols", part 1 

 


For the penultimate meeting this term, we will be examining Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols”, up to the end of “The Four Great Errors” (with a view to complete the book for the last Reading Group in December). We will be discussing the following chapters:

“Preface”, “Maxims and Arrows”, “The Problem of Socrates”, “’Reason’ In Philosophy”, “How The ‘True World’ Finally Became a Fable”, “Morality as Anti-Nature”, and “The Four Great Errors”. We will be discussing the remaining chapters at the next meeting.

The text can be found here: http://www.davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/nietzsche/nietzsche.php?name=nietzsche.1889.twilightoftheidols.kaufmann.index

Meet at New King’s 7, 6pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next Group will be in October 2009. It will run on fortnightly on Tuesdays, 6pm onwards, New King's 7.