24.01 | Spring 2016 | Undergraduate

Classics of Western Philosophy

Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
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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