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(Tu) Aug. 29
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Introductions: Course, Instructor, Students
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(Th) Aug. 31
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Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”
Read: Plato’s Republic (514a-517)
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/greek/philosopher/myth_allegory_cave_plato.html
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Assignment # 1 [See Assignment Instructions in
syllabus packet.]
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(Tu) Sept. 5
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Socrates on the Examined Life
Read: Plato’s “The Apology” (17a-42a)
http://socrates.clarke.edu/aplg0100.htm
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Assignment # 2
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(Th) Sept. 7
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Sophists vs. Socrates
Read: Palmer (3rd, 44-54; 4th,
48-58)
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QUIZ # 1
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(Tu) Sept. 12
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REFLECTION:
Who is in the cave today?
Read: Addicted to War (cartoon book)
VIDEO clip from
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Assignment # 3
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(Th) Sept. 14
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DEBATE: Is Addicted to War
a Gadfly or Sophist Viewpoint on the causes of 9-11?
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Position # 1
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(Tu) Sept. 19
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Plato
Read: Palmer, (3rd, 55-67; 4th,
59-71)
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QUIZ # 2
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(Th) Sept. 21
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Aristotle
Read: Palmer (3rd, 68-83; 4th,
72-87)
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QUIZ # 3
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(Tu) Sept. 26
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REFLECTION: How do the models of the
examined life offered by Plato and Aristotle differ?
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Assignment # 4
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(Th) Sept. 28
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Epicureanism & Stoicicm &
Neoplatonism
Read: Palmer (3rd,87-98 ; 4th,
91-102)
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QUIZ # 4
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(Tu) Oct. 3
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DEBATE: Examined vs. Unexamined Life
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Position # 2
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(Th) Oct. 5
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FILMS: “The Cosmological Argument” and
“The God Who Wasn’t There”
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Last
day for late assignments to date.
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(Tu) Oct. 10
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Medieval Philosophy
Read: Palmer (3rd:100-142; 4th:
104-146)
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QUIZ # 5
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(Th) Oct. 12
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DEBATE: Believers vs. Nonbelievers
Does God exist? How do you know?
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Position # 3
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(Tu) Oct. 17
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Renaissance Philosophy
FILM: “Mindwalk” (excerpt)
Read: Palmer (3rd:142-148; 4th:
146-152)
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Assignment # 5
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(Th) Oct. 19
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Rationalism: Descartes
Read: Palmer (3rd:150-168; 4th:
154-172)
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QUIZ # 6
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(Tu) Oct. 24
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Empiricism: Hobbes & Locke
Read: Palmer (3rd:169-173 &
184-191; 4th: 173-177 & 188-195)
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QUIZ # 7
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(Th) Oct. 26
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DEBATE: What is the foundation of knowledge?
Rationalism vs. Empiricism
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Position # 4
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(Tu) Oct. 31
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Schopenhauer
Read: Palmer section on Schopenhauer
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QUIZ # 8
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(Th) Nov. 2
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Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer
Read: Leda Cosmides & John Tooby http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
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Assignment # 6
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(Tu) Nov. 7
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Marx
Read: Palmer section on Marx
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QUIZ # 9
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(Th) Nov. 9
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DEBATE: On Determinism
Which form of determinism?
To what extent is human reality determined?
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Position # 5
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(Tu) Nov. 14
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Kierkegaard
Read: Palmer
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QUIZ # 10
Last
day for late assignments to date.
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(Th) Nov. 16
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Nietzsche
Read: Palmer
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QUIZ # 11
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(Tu) Nov. 21
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Heidegger & Sartre
Read: Palmer on both sections
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QUIZ # 12
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(Th) Nov. 28
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DEBATE: On Existentialism
Which form of existentialism?
To what extent do humans have free will?
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Position # 6
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(Tu) Nov. 30
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Sartre’s “No Exit”
Read: Use the book or online at http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/sart.html
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Assignment # 7
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(Th) Dec. 5
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Existentialist Dialogues
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Dialogue Due
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(Tu) Dec. 7
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WORKSHOP for Oral Presentation
NO
LATE assignments accepted after this class.
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Written Final Due
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FINAL EXAM (see schedule)
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What’s your philosophy?
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Final In-class Oral Presentation
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