Spring 2009 – Tentative Reading/Exam
Schedule
___________________________________________________________________________________Week 1 (January 12 – January 16)
—Introduction
to Course Objectives
—Plato’s
Euthyphro, p. 1 – 19
___________________________________________________________________________________Week 2 (January 19 – January 23)
—Plato’s
Apology, p. 20 – 42
—Plato’s
Crito, p.
43 – 54, and Plato’s Phaedo,
p. 55 – 58
___________________________________________________________________________________Week 3 (January 26 – January 30)
—Marcus’s
Meditations, Books 2 and 4
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___________________________________________________________________________________Week 4 (February 2 – February 6)
—Descartes’s
Letter of Dedication, and Meditation One, p. 1 – 4 and 9 – 13
—Descarte’s Meditation
Two, p. 13 – 19
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Week 5 (February 9 – February 13)
—Descartes’s
Meditations Three and Four, 19 – 35
—Descartes’s
Meditation Five, p. 35 – 40
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Week 6 (February 16 – February 20)
—Descartes’s
Meditation Six, p. 40 – 50
Note: Class will not meet on Wednesday and Friday of this
week; I will be attending a conference.
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Week 7 (February 23 – February 27)
Exam I – Don’t forget to bring a blue book!
—Hume’s
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,
Sections II and III, available online here
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Week 8 (March 2 – March 6)
—Hume’s
Enquiry, Section X, available online here
—J.L.
Mackie’s “Evil and Omnipotence,” available online here
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Week 9 (March 9 – March 13)
—Mill’s
Utilitarianism, Chapter II, p. 238 –
259
Note: Class will not
meet on Wednesday and Friday of this week; I will be attending a conference.
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Spring Break (March 16 – 20)
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Week 10 (March 23 – March 27)
—Mill’s
On
—Mill’s
On
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Week 11 (March 30 – April 3)
—Peter
Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” available online here
Exam II – Don’t forget to bring a blue book!
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Week 12 (April 6 – April 10)
—Nietzsche’s
The Gay Science, p. 171 – 178
—Nietzsche’s
The Gay Science [continued]
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Week 13 (April 13 – April 17)
—Nietzsche’s
On the Genealogy of Morals, First
Essay, p. 460 – 492
—Nietzsche’s
On the Genealogy of Morals, Second
Essay, p. 493 – 532
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Week 14 (April 20 – April 24)
—Nietzsche’s
On the Genealogy of Morals, Third
Essay, p. 533 – 599
—Marx
& Engels’s Selected
Writings, p. 58 – 68, and p. 157 – 169
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Week 15 (April 27 – April 29)
—Marx
& Engels’s Selected
Writings, p. 169 – 176
Exam III – Don’t forget to bring a blue book!
Note:
Semester Writing Assignments are due Wednesday April 29, at the beginning of
class.
These materials are not endorsed, approved,
sponsored, or provided by or on behalf of the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville; however, the ghost of Emma Goldman
is, no doubt, looking upon them as we speak—and, nodding with approval.