All readings are subject to change.
Please read the following selections before the class to which they are assigned. Reading the material after we discuss it in class often proves extremely helpful as well.
Spring 2009 Schedule
| Tuesday, Jan 13: | What is philosophy? |
| Thursday, Jan 15: | Pre-Socratics: Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Parmenides |
| Tuesday, Jan 20 | Plato: Apology |
| Thursday, Jan 22 | Plato: Euthyphro |
| Tuesday, Jan 27 | Plato: Crito |
| Thursday, Jan 29 | Plato: Meno |
| Tuesday, Feb 3 | Plato: Republic: Book I |
| Thursday, Feb 5 | Plato: Republic: Books V and VII |
| Tuesday, Feb 10 | Review |
| Thursday, Feb 12 | First Exam |
| Tuesday, Feb 17 | Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Book I |
| Thursday, Feb 19 | Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Book II |
| Tuesday, Feb 24 | Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Books III & X |
| Thursday, Feb 26 | St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Five Ways" |
| Tuesday, March 3 | Rene Descartes: Meditations I-III |
| Thursday, March 5 | Rene Descartes: Meditations IV & VI |
| Tuesday, March 10 | John Locke: Essay on Human Understanding: Book II: Chapters I-IV |
| Thursday, March 12 | John Locke: Essay on Human Understanding: Book II: Chapters VI-VIII & On Personal Identity |
| Tuesday, March 17 | Spring Break |
| Thursday, March 19 | Spring Break |
| Tuesday, March 24 | Review |
| Thursday, March 26 | Second Exam |
| Tuesday, March 31 | David Hume: Treatise of Human Nature: Book III. Of Morals |
| Thursday, April 2 | Kant: Groundwork of Metaphysic of Morals: Preface & First Section: pp. 463-473 |
| Tuesday, April 7 | Kant: Groundwork of Metaphysic of Morals: Second Section: pp. 473-486 |
| Thursday, April 9 | Kant: Groundwork of Metaphysic of Morals: Third Section: pp. 486-499 |
| Tuesday, April 14 | John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism: Chapters 1 & 2 |
| Thursday, April 16 | John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism: Chapters 3 and 4 |
| Tuesday, April 21 | Friedrich Nietzsche: pp. 568-572 |
| Thursday, April 23 | Friedrich Nietzsche: pp. 572-580 |
| Tuesday, April 28 | Review/Short Papers Due |
| Thursday, April 30 | Third/Final Exam |
