[P] = Plato. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics). 2nd ed. Edited by John M. Cooper. Translated by G. M. A. Grube. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporation, 2002. ISBN: 9780872206335. [Preview with Google Books]
[D] = Descartes, René. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. 4th ed. Translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing Company, 1999. ISBN: 9780872204201.
[K] = Kant, Immanuel. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns. 3rd ed. Translated by James W. Ellington. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporation, 1993. ISBN: 9780872201668. [Preview with Google Books]
[H] = Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 2nd ed. Hackett, 2012. ISBN: 9780872202290.
[PV] = Pojman, Louis P., and Lewis Vaughn. Classics of Philosophy. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780199737291.
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | First class | None |
| Socrates (c. 470 BCE - 399 BCE) and Plato (429? BCE - 347 BCE) | ||
| 2 | Socrates and the Law |
[P] “Apology.” Recommended[P] “Crito.” |
| 3 | Elenchus | [P] “Euthyphro.” |
| 4 | Akrasia & Pragmatic Paradox | [P] “Meno 70a–80d.” |
| 5 | Knowledge and Learning | [P] “Meno 80d–100b.” |
| 6 | The Soul in Plato | [P] “Phaedo 57a–95b.” |
| Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE) | ||
| 7 | The Soul in Aristotle |
[PV] “On the Soul, Books II–III.” [PV] “Politics I.” Aristotle. “On the Generation of Animals.” 2016. |
| 8 | Happiness | [PV] “Nichomachean Ethics: Book I” (especially chapters 1 and 7–8). |
| 9 | Virtue | [PV] “Nichomachean Ethics: Book II” (especially chapter 6). |
| Renè Descartes (1596–1650) | ||
| 10 | Skepticism | [D] “Meditation 1.” |
| 11 | Cogito | [D] “Meditation 2.” |
| 12 | Existence of God | [D] “Meditations 3 and 5.” |
| 13 | Distinction between Mind and Body |
[D] “Meditation 6.” Atherton, Margaret. “Selections from her Correspondence with Descartes: Elisabeth to Descartes.” In Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporation, 1994. ISBN: 9780872202597. [Preview with Google Books] RecommendedDescartes, Rene. Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings. Translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 139–43. ISBN: 9780521358125. [Preview with Google Books] |
| Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) | ||
| 14 | Intelligent Matter | Cavendish, Margaret. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). Edited by Eileen O’Neill. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 125–49. ISBN: 9780521776752. [Preview with Google Books] |
| David Hume (1711–1776) | ||
| 15 | Empiricism | [H] “Enquiry 1–3.” |
| 16 | Induction | [H] “Enquiry 4–5.” |
| 17 | Causation | [H] “Enquiry 7.” |
| Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) | ||
| 18 | The Good Will |
[K] “First Section.” Kant, Immanuel. “Of the Different Human Races.” |
| 19 | Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives | [K] “Second Section.” |
| 20 | Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives (Cont.) | None |
| John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) | ||
| 21 | Utilitarianism | Mill, John Stuart. Chapters 2 and 4 in Utilitarianism. 4th ed. Edited by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN: 9781492144090. |
| 22 | Women’s Rights? | ———. Chapters 1–2 in The Subjection of Women. 1st ed. Edited by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. Nabu Press, 2010. ISBN: 9871172450848. |
| 23 | Slavery |
———. “Book 2: Of Slavery.” Chapter 5 in Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. Edited by William J. Ashley. Adamant Media Corporation, 2001. ISBN: 9780543794505. Douglass, Frederick. Chapters XIV–XVII in My Bondage and My Freedom. Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780140439182. (Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina) |
| W. E. B. DuBois (1868–1963) | ||
| 24 | Double Consciousness |
Du Bois, W. E. B. Chapters 1–2 in The Souls of Black Folk. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781505223378. [Preview with Google Books] Recommended———. “Of the Sons of Master and Man.” Chapter 9 in The Souls of Black Folk. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781505223378. |
| Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) | ||
| 25 | Transcendence | Beauvoir, Simone de, Constance Borde, and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. The Second Sex. Vintage, 2011, pp. 23–29. ISBN: 9780307277787. |
| 26 | Last class | None |
