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This is the place to be if you want to know what we'll be doing on any given day. Please remember that this is my best guess of how much material we will cover and it is subject to change once we get underway. The calendar will be updated frequently to reflect our actual progress during the semester.
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Week Date Material: 

1

 1/16 & 18/01 Handout syllabus and introduce 3 areas of philosophy; assign intro. reading from web Philosophy for Laymen by Bernard Russell

2

 1/23 & 25/01
  1. Discuss Philosophy for Laymen (Russell).
  2. Introduce Plato’s Euthyphro (Five Dialogues, 5-22)
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3

 1/30 & 2/1/01
  1. Finish Plato’s Euthyphro.
  2. Introduce Plato’s Apology (Five Dialogues, 23-44)
    3.

4

 2/6 & 8/01
  1. Finish the Apology.
  2. Introduce Plato’s Crito (Five Dialogues, 45-58)
  3. RESEARCH PAPER 1 DUE 2/8/01

5

 2/13 & 15/01
  1. Finish Plato’s Crito.
  2. 20 Questions text:

6

 2/20 & 2201
  1. Finish seminar discussion for Ancient Philosophy.
  2. Writing workshop from web site.
  3. HAND OUT TAKE-HOME MIDTERM
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7

 2/27 & 3/1/01 Medieval Web Notes
  1. TAKE-HOME MIDTERM DUE 3/1/01
  2. Ch. 2: St. Anselm: "The Ontological Argument", p. 55
  3. Ch. 2: St. Thomas Aquinas: "Whether God Exists", p. 57
  4. Ch. 2: Kierkegaard: "The Leap of Faith…", p. 71
  5. HAND OUT Descartes’: Meditations on First Philosophy (I-III)

8

 3/13 & 15/01
  1. Seminar: What is modernity?
  2. Understanding Descartes’: Meditations on First Philosophy (I-III)
  • Rationality vs. irrationality
  • Mind-body
  • Knowledge vs. Faith
 

9

 3/20 & 22/01
  1. Finish Descartes
  2. Ch. 15: Kant: "The Metaphysics of Morals", p. 685
  3. Ch. 15: Mill: "Utilitarianism", p. 690
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10

  3/27 & 29/01
  1. Ch. 15: Beauvoir: "Freedom and Morality", p. 701
  2. Ch. 18: Sartre: "Freedom and Responsibility", p. 814
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11

 4/3 & 5/01
  1. Ch. 19: Hobbes: "Justice and the Social Contract", p. 846
  2. Ch. 19: Mill: "Utilitarian theory of justice", p. 851
  3. Ch. 19: Rawls: "Justice as Fairness", p.856
  4. Ch. 19: Young: "The Myth of Merit", p. 873
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12

 4/10 & 12/01
  1. Ch. 1: Powers: "Some Important Buddhist Doctrines", p. 8
  2. Ch. 1: Ramakrishna: "Many Paths to the Same Summit", p. 19.

13

 4/17 & 19/01 The Art of War then and now!

 

14

 4/24 & 26/01
  1. Ch. 20: Adam Smith: "Benefits of the Profit Motive", p. 898
  2. Ch. 20: Marx & Engels: "The Immorality of Capitalism", p. 903.

SHORT PAPER 2 DUE 4/26/01

15

 5/1 & 3/01
  1. Catch up week and review for final
  2. FINAL EXAM NO MAKE-UPS

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