Continental Philosophy of Religion (RS 3CP3)
Fall 2011

TEXT SUMMARY 3

Assignment due in class on October 11* from anyone who has not completed a Text Summary

*Since part of the value of the text summary assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due.  If you have to miss that day's class, please contact the instructor to make alternate arrangements.

Please prepare a written summary (approximately 3 pages** long) of:

Martin Heidegger, "Letter on 'Humanism'" (1946), trans. Frank A. Capuzzi, in Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill [essay in coursepack / purchase book / make personal copy from book on reserve]:
  • p. 245 para. 2 ("Every humanism...") - p. 247 line 4 ("...claimed by being")
  • p. 247 bottom ("What the human being is...") - p. 249 bottom:  "the ecstatic relation to the clearing of being."
  • p. 250, two short bits:   (1) "By way of contrast..." - "oblivion of the truth of being";  and (2) two sentences near the bottom of the page, beginning "Sartre's key proposition..."
  • p. 251 ("But in order...") - p. 252 ("...in the light of being.")
  • p. 266 bottom ("With the existential determination..." - 268 to first paragraph break ("...in the metaphysical sense")

In preparing this summary, please follow the guidelines in: 

  • Hugo Bedau, Thinking and Writing About Philosophy, 2nd ed. (2002), pp. 7-15 [selection in coursepack / book on reserve]
  • Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources, pp. 1-3, 6, 10-19, 22-23, 50-51 [purchase book / selection in coursepack / book on reserve]

**Please print your assignment double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font.  Please number and staple the pages you hand in. 

Please keep a copy of your summary to refer to in our class discussions of Heidegger over the next few meetings.

 

posted/distributed October 8, 2011