Credibility Pursuing Incredibility
1976.09 – 1977.02.19 Ph. D. Program Graduate Fellow, Department of Philosophy UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Instruction of undergraduates. Lecturing, discussion, grading. Taught Introduction to philosophy and History of Modern. Focus: Metaphysics, and Aesthetics. Plato, Husserl, A- avg.
Scholarship; Teachers: Richard Taylor, Lewis White Beck, Stephen Pink, Colin M. Turbayne
EFJ Pane (Secretary, British Schopenhauer Society)
through- 1976.06 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ Stevenson College Post-BA Apprentice Teacher
With my advisor’s encouragement, exploiting a little-used mechanism to stay, designed and taught two accredited philosophy (metaphysics) courses under minimal supervision. Kant, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, and Eastern philophy were discussed in light of theories of philosophical reticence.
“Stanley Jungleib’s Senior Thesis was a comprehensive, intelligent and in_depth analysis of Schopenhauer’s philosophy and the general principles it relies upon. The very size of this work was truly impressive: far more than a customary senior thesis.The paper reveals an extraordinary familiarity of the author with the primary and secondary sources. Equally impressive is Stanley’s ability to sustain an intense analysis and criticism of Schopenhauer’s central ideas. The thesis was granted Honors without hesitation.”
This seminar, recommended to me by my psychiatrist at the time Dr. Noel Morrell set the basic tone of my philosophical studies; that rather than a path to some sort of supposedly advanced knowledge, philosophy was as suspect as any other distraction on the path to authenticity. It was something to be done and gotten over with in the pursuit of nominally ordinary affairs. A therapy, in short.
Koestenbaum was hugely influential upon me, as well recognized me as a protoge’.