WEEK – 1
(Wed 5/29) Plato
Symposium: gutenberg.org /or/ ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
(Wedgwood 2009): library database
Stephanus Numbers: perseus.tufts.edu
WEEK – 2
(Mon 6/4) Plato
Alcibiades: http://www.san.beck.org/Alcibiades.html
(Syse 2006): library databases
Phaedrus: gutenberg.org or adelaide.edu
(DPE Muir 2000): library databases
(Wed 6/6) Workshop #1
Due: 2 paragraphs (2 pages) printed in MLA format (see Purdue OWL)
First Paragraph: On claims that Plato makes, with selected quotations, properly cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Second Paragraph: On the value of claims that Plato makes about love, with a clear evaluation contributing reasons, evidence, or experience of your own.
WEEK – 3
(Mon 6/11) Aristotle
Metaphysics V: classics.mit.edu /or/ ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
(Hawkins 2011*): library databases [*new target]
Bekker Numbers: perseus.tufts.edu
On the Soul II.1-2, III.4-5: classics.mit.edu /or/ ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
(Bremer 2011): library databases
(Wed 6/13) Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics Bk. I: classics.mit.edu /or/ ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
(Moss 2011): library databases
Nicomachean Ethics Bk. VIII: classics.mit.edu /or/ ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
(Carlos Alberto Sanchez on Generosity in Aristotle 2010): library databases
WEEK – 4
(Mon 6/18) Workshop #2
Due: 2 paragraphs (2 pages) printed in MLA format (see Purdue OWL)
First Paragraph: On claims that Aristotle makes, with selected quotations, properly
cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Second Paragraph: On the value of claims that Aristotle makes, with a clear evaluation contributing reasons, evidence, or experience of your own.
(Wed 6/20) Epicureans
Democritus: wikipedia
Epicurus: epicurus.net
Armstrong, John M. “Epicurean Justice.” (1997) Library databases
Marx: marxists.org / On Feuerbach / German Ideology: First Premises
(Fluxman 2009) Library databases
WEEK – 5
(Mon 6/25) Stoicism
Epictetus (Enchiridion): classics.mit.edu
Aurelius, Meditations (Book VI): classics.mit.edu
Kant: plato.stanford.edu
Toulmin (Nature’s God 1985) Library Databases
(Wed 6/27) Workshop #3
Due: 2 paragraphs (2 pages) printed in MLA format (see Purdue OWL)
First Paragraph: On claims made in recently presented texts, with selected quotations, properly cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Second Paragraph: On the value of claims made, with a clear evaluation contributing reasons, evidence, or experience of your own.
WEEK – 6
(Mon 7/2) Contract Theory
Hobbes, Leviathan (Ch. XIV): oregonstate.edu
Hegel, Lordship-Bondage: marxists.org
Rawls: iep.utm.edu
Kathrani (Social Contract 2010) Library databases
WEEK – 7
(Mon 7/9) Workshop #4
Due: 2 paragraphs (2 pages) printed in MLA format (see Purdue OWL)
First Paragraph: On claims made by one of the figures from last week, with selected quotations, properly cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Second Paragraph: On the value of claims made, with a clear evaluation contributing reasons, evidence, or experience of your own.
(Wed 7/11) Asian Philosophy
Hinduism (sacred-texts.com)
Gandhi (Gita: kirtimukha.com) / (Hind Swaraj: mkgandhi.org)
Buddhism (accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma)
Thich Nhat Hanh (plumvillage.org/mindfulness-trainings) / (Interview with Oprah)
WEEK – 8
(Mon 7/16) Chinese Philosophy
Confucianism: 4 Books (infiniteloom.info)
Taoism: Lao Tzu “Dao De Jing” (yellowbridge.com)
See: Kim-Chong Chong on Jen (Library databases)
(Wed 7/18) Workshop #5
Due: 2 paragraphs (2 pages) printed in MLA format (see Purdue OWL)
First Paragraph: On claims made by a recently presented text, with selected quotations, properly cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Second Paragraph: On the value of claims made, with a clear evaluation contributing reasons, evidence, or experience of your own.
WEEK – 9
(Mon 7/23) Spiritual Philosophy
Augustine, On Christian Doctrine (sign, love): ccel.org
(Puolimatka on Augustine and Education 2005) Library databases
Ghazali, Fear and Hope: www.sunnipath.com
(Imtiaz Ali on Al-Ghazali and Schopenhauer 2007) Library databases
Buber, I and Thou: archive.org/details/IAndThou_572
(Kaplan on Buber and Otherness 1978) Library databases
(Wed 7/25) American Pragmatism
Peirce: cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/bycsp.htm
(What is a Sign, c1894)
(New List of Categories, 1867)
(Fixation of Belief, 1877)
(How to Make our Ideas Clear, 1878)
James: des.emory.edu/mfp/james.html
(Will to Believe)
(Varieties of Religious Experience)
Dewey: www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/dewey.html
(Democracy and Education, Ch. 7, keyword:”shared”)
WEEK – 10
(Mon 7/30) Workshop #6
Due: 2 paragraphs (2 pages) printed in MLA format (see Purdue OWL)
First Paragraph: On claims made by one of the figures from last week, with selected quotations, properly cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Second Paragraph: On the value of claims made, with a clear evaluation contributing reasons, evidence, or experience of your own.
(Wed 8/1) East-Side Philosophy
Farmer: African American Registry / Forest Whitaker as / 1604
Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited: google books
King, Letter from Birmingham Jail: stanford.edu
WEEK – 11
(Mon 8/6) Feminism & Forward
Addams: Democracy and Social Ethics (Intro & Ch 5)
Beauvoir: Second Sex, Ethics of Ambiguity (marxists.org)
Rand: Objectivist Ethics (ARI)
Anzaldua: Borderlands / La Frontera (scribd.com)
–keywords: Coatlicue, Nepantla, la Facultad, nahual, mestiza, mestizaje
Butler: Gender Trouble (google books)
(Wed 8/8) DRAFT Workshop
Bring outline with quotes and notes for final paper
WEEK – 12
(Mon 8/13) Final Workshop
Due: 4 pages: printed in MLA format (see Purdue OWL)
Title: Your Philosophical Question?
First Page: One answer to the question from course materials, with selected quotations, properly cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Second Page: Another answer to the question from course materials, with selected quotations, properly cited in MLA format (see Purdue OWL).
Third Page: Evaluate relative strengths and weaknesses of the answers as given above.
Fourth Page: Your answer to the question with evidence, or experience of your own.
(Wed 8/15) Late finals accepted (without penalty) in class 6:00 – 6:20
Have a Nice Break!
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