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Hint: compose threads in word processor and paste into Blackboard discussion board. |
| WEEK 1 |
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| Th-1/19 |
Introduction – Syllabus – Blackboard – House of Life |
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http://getsyllab.us/ |
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Open a thread to introduce yourself, declare your philosophical interests, and share a philosophical belief that you hold (due Tues). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 2 |
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| Th-1/26 |
Books of Moses |
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http://bible.cc/ |
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Rachel Adler / Engendering Judaism (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=7qsqz0oKZBAC |
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From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 3 |
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| Th-2/2 |
Buddhism: VIMALAKIRTI NIRDESA SUTRA |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimalakirti_Sutra |
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see “external links” to English translations |
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Rita M Gross / The Dharma of Gender (pdf) |
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www.wilfridlaurier.ca/documents/6479/The_dharma_of.pdf |
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From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 4 |
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| Th-2/9 |
Plato: Symposium |
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http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html |
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Irigaray on Diotima in The Ethics of Sexual Difference (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=44ZLW3CoDYwC |
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Damien Casey: Luce Irigaray and the Advent of the Divine (Author’s Web Pages) |
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http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/staffhome/dacasey/articles.html |
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From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 5 |
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| Th-2/16 |
Aristotle: Ethics, Bk VIII, Friendship |
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http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.8.viii.html |
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Ruth Groenhout, “The Virtue of Care,” Ch. 7 in Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=_clplh2kAvkC |
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From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 6 |
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| Th-2/23 |
Aquinas: Virtues |
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3.htm |
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Susanne Marie DeCrane, Aquinas, feminism, and the common good (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=Mh1BSl7YkDYC |
| Online |
From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 7 |
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| Th-3/1 |
Hobbes: Leviathan (Ch. 13-18) |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3207 |
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Jane Flax, “The Patriarchal Unconscious” in Harding & Hintikka, Discovering Reality (Google Book, p. 261) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=gpGu-Xqx7bgC |
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Above reference to Flax appears to have been blocked by Google Books. As an alternative please access your library electronic databases and search for: Green, Karen. “Christine De Pisan And Thomas Hobbes.” Philosophical Quarterly 44.177 (1994): 456-475. |
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From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 8 |
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| Th-3/8 |
Spinoza: Ethics (Part IV, keyword: joy) |
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http://frank.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/Spinoza/ethica4.html |
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Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions: on nomadic ethics (Google Book, “Spinoza Revisited”) — also Google “philosophical nomadism” |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=iSmwVs99P3QC |
| Onine |
From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| SPRING |
BREAK |
| WEEK 9 |
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| Th-3/22 |
Hume’s Utility (See Treatise, Bk III of Morals) |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4705 |
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Christine Swanton, “Compassion as a Virtue in Hume” or Jacqueline Taylor, “Hume and the Reality of Value” in Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=vwCX5kJ_CVkC |
| Online |
From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 10 |
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| Th-3/29 |
Kant: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ |
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Herta Nagl-Docekal, “Feminist Ethics: How it Could Benefit from Kant’s Moral Philosophy” in Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=Ah2LMcR-LLQC |
| Online |
From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 11 |
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| Th-4/5 |
Hegel: Self-consciousness and the Master-Slave dialectic |
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phba.htm |
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Debbie Evans, “Sartre and Beauvoir on Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and the Question of the ‘Look’” in Beauvoir and Sartre: the riddle of influence (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=LUVIOSwVWhEC |
| Online |
From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 12 |
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| Th-4/12 |
Kierkegaard: To Will One Thing (Ch. 13) |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2523&C=2399 |
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Sylvia Walsh, “Living Christianly” (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=qJLy6EGv3NgC |
| Online |
From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 13 |
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| Th-4/19 |
Marx: Theses on Feuerbach, German Ideology (1A) |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01.htm |
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Sabine Gurtler, “The Ethical Dimension of Work: A Feminist Perspective,” Hypatia: A Journal Of Feminist Philosophy 20.2 (2005): 119-134. |
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Access Library Database |
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From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 14 |
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| Th-4/26 |
Nietzsche: Zarathustra, Genealogy of Morals |
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http://philosophy.eserver.org/nietzsche-zarathustra.txt |
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http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm |
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Judith Butler, “Circuits of Bad Conscience,” in The Psychic Life of Power (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=XuJlkAMjQK4C |
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Rosalyn Diprose, “Nietzsche and the Pathos of Distance,” in Corporeal Generosity (Google Book) |
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http://books.google.com/books?id=qhtejVr_g7YC |
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From this week’s reading selections, choose a couple of sentences that express key ideas that interest you. In one paragraph, present the quotes as you explain how they express the key ideas of the text. This paragraph should be a mixture of short quotes (properly formatted in MLA style) along with your own words of interpretation. In a second paragraph, evaluate the quotes using your own examples and reasons (due Tue). Support your classmates by replying to at least two threads (due Wed). |
| WEEK 15 |
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| Th-5/3 |
James: Will to Believe, Varieties of Religious Experience (Gutenberg) |
| WEEK 16 |
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| Th-5/10 |
DUE ONLINE: Four paragraphs. The title (or subject line) of this final exercise should be a philosophical question. (1) The first paragraph of the exercise should present one answer to the question from one of the texts that we studied this semester; be sure to exercise skills of presentation including proper citation of sources and combination of quotes with your own interpretation. (2) The second paragraph should present a second (and different) answer to the question using another text from the course (with quotes, etc.). (3) The third paragraph should focus on the first two paragraphs, answering the question: which answer is stronger and why? (4) The fourth paragraph will present your tentative answer to the question posed in the title. How do you answer the question and how does it compare or contrast to answers already given. What reasons do you give for arguing that your answer is the best possible answer at this point of inquiry? (Please remember to compose in a word processor and paste into your thread, in order to minimize frustrations.) |
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