Date ... Topic... Readings ... Assignments
Introduction
Jan 6 Introductory Matters
Jan 8 Discussion about value of philosophy Chapter
1 (6 bullet items on what the study
of philosophy can do for me) Recommended Reading: Plato's
Republic 7
Jan 13 Lecture: The Beginnings of Philosophy
Jan 15 Cont.
Jan 20 Philosophies of Life: Stoicism; The relationship of Doubt
and Faith; Pragmatism Chapter 2 (pages 43-61) Take
and score the test on pages 44-46.
Jan 22 Existentialism Free Will and Determinism
(pages 62-82)
Jan 27 Hedonism and Buddhism (pages 82-115)
Take and score web test
Logic and Argument
Jan 29 Philosophy of Life essay due
Feb 3 Socratic Argument Chapter 3 (pages
125-139) Take and score the test
on pages 137-139
Feb 5 Opinion versus Argument, Fact versus Value (pages
139-142)
Feb 10 Logic (pages 143-153)
Feb 12 Fallacies (pages 153-165) Take and score web test
Epistemology and Metaphysics
Feb 17 Plato's Metaphysical Epistemology Chapter
4 (pages170-188) Analysis of Rhetoric
Feb 19 Descartes and Rationalism (pages
189-203)Take and score the test on
pages 173-175
Feb 24 Locke, Berkeley and Hume and Empiricism (pages
203-228)
Feb 26 Immanuel Kant (pages 228-248)
March 1-5 Reading Week
March 9 Kant resumed
March 11 Rational Proofs for the Existence of God (pages
248-267) Take and score web
test
March 16 The Problem of Evil The Presuppositions
of an Academic Discipline
Ethics and Morality
March 18 Teleological and Virtue Ethics Chapter 5
(pages 273-296)Take and Score the
test on page 278-280
March 20 Academic Symposium
March 23 Deontological and Utilitarian (pages
297-319)
March 25 Feminine Ethics and Nietzsche (pages
320-372) Prosposition Essay Assignment
March 30 Class Discussion of one Moral Issue Take
and score web test
Political Philosophy
April 1 Plato's Republic Chapter 6 (pages
378-399) Take and score the test
on pages 380-383
April 6 Social Contract Theory (pages
399-419)
April 8 Marxism (pages 419-442)
Prosposition Essay Assignment
April 13 Liberalism versus Conservatism Take
and score web test
April 15 Review
April Final Exam