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