Here is a listing of the selection you should have read in our textbook by each class. Please read the selection by the first class we discuss it. (So you would be well advised to get started on the next reading before we finish discussing the previous one.) I also recommend you read the Introductions to each of the philosophers we discuss, but we will not discuss the introductions except, perhaps, in passing.
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Dates |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
| 1/17,19 | Intro/Discussion | Plato, Crito |
| 1/24,26 | Plato, Crito | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics |
| 1/31,2/2 | Aristotle, Nic. Ethics | Aristotle, Politics |
| 2/7,9 | Aristotle, Politics | Hobbes, Leviathan |
| 2/14,16 | Hobbes, Leviathan | Locke, 2nd Treatise on Gov't |
| 2/21,23 | Locke, 2nd Treatise | Rousseau, Social Contract |
| 2/28,3/2 | Rousseau, Social Contract | Hume, Of the Original Contract |
| 3/7,9 | Hume, Of the Original Contract | Hume, Of Parties in General |
| 3/14,16 |
SPRING |
BREAK |
| 3/21,23 | Hume, Treatise of Human Nature | Hume, Treatise of Human Nature |
| 3/28,30 | Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals | Kant, Groundwork |
| 4/4,6 | Kant, Groundwork | Kant, Groundwork |
| 4/11,13 | Mill, Utilitarianism | Mill, Utilitarianism |
| 4/18,20 | Mill, On Liberty |
Last Day of Passover |
| 4/25,27 | Mill, On Liberty | Catch up/Tie up |