SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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1 | First class | |
Socrates (c. 470 BCE - 399 BCE) and Plato (429? BCE - 347 BCE) | ||
2 | Socrates and the Law | |
3 | Elenchus | |
4 | Akrasia & Pragmatic Paradox | Exercise 1 due |
5 | Knowledge and Learning | |
6 | The Soul in Plato | |
Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE) | ||
7 | The Soul in Aristotle | |
8 | Happiness | Exercise 2 due |
9 | Virtue | |
Renè Descartes (1596–1650) | ||
10 | Skepticism | |
11 | Cogito | |
12 | Existence of God | |
13 | Distinction between Mind and Body | Paper 1 due |
Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) | ||
14 | Intelligent Matter | |
David Hume (1711–1776) | ||
15 | Empiricism | |
16 | Induction | |
17 | Causation | |
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) | ||
18 | The Good Will | |
19 | Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives | Paper 2 due |
20 | Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives (Cont.) | |
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) | ||
21 | Utilitarianism | |
22 | Women’s Rights? | |
23 | Slavery | |
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) | ||
24 | Double Consciousness | Rewrite of Paper 2 due |
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) | ||
25 | Transcendence | |
26 | Last class | Paper 3 due |
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