| Week |
Date |
Summary |
Detail |
Points |
| Week 1 |
1/18/11 |
Introduction to the Course |
Welcome to the House of Life |
0 |
|
1/20/11 |
Meet Plato |
Alcibiades |
0 |
| Week 2 |
1/25/11 |
Plato on Love |
Phaedrus, Symposium (for weeks when 5 point exercises are noted, participation in Blackboard forum is required.) |
5 |
|
1/27/11 |
Plato on Knowledge |
Euthyphro, Phaedo |
0 |
| Week 3 |
2/1/11 |
Plato on Justice |
The Republic |
5 |
|
2/3/11 |
Plato Considered |
The Republic |
0 |
| Week 4 |
2/8/11 |
Presenting Plato |
Select some portion of Plato to present with “direct quotes” (and citations). One page and a half. |
10 |
|
2/10/11 |
Responding to Plato |
How do you put Plato into your own words, what do you think, and why? One page and a half. |
10 |
| Week 5 |
2/15/11 |
Meet John Stuart Mill |
Utilitarianism |
0 |
|
2/17/11 |
Mill on Liberty |
On Liberty |
0 |
| Week 6 |
2/22/11 |
Meet the Epicureans |
Democritus, Epicurus, Marx |
5 |
|
2/24/11 |
Meet Aristotle |
Physics (4 causes), On the Soul (as life) |
0 |
| Week 7 |
3/1/11 |
Meet the Aristotelians |
Nicomachean Ethics, Ali, Maimonides, Aquinas |
5 |
|
3/3/11 |
Nietzsche‘s Naturalism |
Birth of Tragedy, Twilight of the Idols |
0 |
| Week 8 |
3/8/11 |
Presenting to Mill, etc. |
Select some portion of the material to present with “direct quotes” (and citations). Two pages. |
20 |
|
3/10/11 |
Responding to Mill, etc. |
How do you put the chosen selection in your own words. How do you respond. Why? Two pages. |
20 |
| Week 9 |
3/22/11 |
Introducing Global Philosophy |
Egypt, Proverbs, Hamurabi |
0 |
|
3/24/11 |
Global India |
Hinduism, Buddhism |
0 |
| Week 10 |
3/29/11 |
Global China |
Confucianism, Taoism |
5 |
|
3/31/11 |
Global America |
Popol Vuh, Black Elk |
0 |
| Week 11 |
4/5/11 |
Global Struggle |
Douglass, Addams |
5 |
|
4/7/11 |
Global Nonviolence |
Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King |
0 |
| Week 12 |
4/12/11 |
Global Feminism |
DeBeauvoir, Davis |
5 |
|
4/14/11 |
Global Sexuality |
Foucault, Butler |
0 |
| Week 13 |
4/19/11 |
Presenting Global Topics |
Pose a philosophical question and present two answers given in the global literature “with direct quotes” (and citations). One page and a half per text. |
30 |
|
4/21/11 |
Responding to Global Topics |
How do you evaluate the relative value of the two answers given. And why? What would be your philosophical answer. Why? Two to three pages. |
30 |
| Week 14 |
4/26/11 |
Pivotal Topics |
Hobbes |
0 |
|
4/28/11 |
Pivotal Topics |
Peirce |
0 |
| Week 15 |
5/3/11 |
Pivotal Topics |
Lacan, Zizek |
5 |
|
5/5/11 |
Pivotal Topics |
Farmer, Thurman |
0 |
| Week 16 |
5/10/11 |
Presenting Pivotal Topics |
Present a philosophical question and two answers from pivotal texts of your choice “with quotes” (and cites). At least two pages. |
20 |
|
5/12/11 |
Responding to Pivotal Topics |
How do you evaluate the answers presented. What is your philosophical answer? Two pages. |
20 |
|
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200 |
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