January 11 Introduction to the Course
January 13 Plato, Apology
January 18 Plato, Crito
January 20-25 Plato, Phaedo
January 27 Plato, Meno
February 1 Plato, Meno
February 3 Aristotle, De Anima
February 8 Aristotle, Metaphysics
February 10-15 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
February 17 Aristotle, Politics
February 22 Philosophical definitions and problems; discussion and review
February 24 Midterm Exam
March 8-15 Descartes, Meditations
March 15 First Paper Due
March 17 – 24 Hume, Enquiry
March 29 Wittgenstein, On Certainty
March 31 Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
April 5 Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government”(“Civil Disobedience”); “Walking”
April 7 De Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Introduction, Chapter One)
April 12 Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Chapters I-III)
April 14 M.L. King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
April 19 Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”
April 21 Steven Best, “The Ethics of Vegetarianism”
Sandra Fairbanks, “Environmental Goodness and the Challenge of American Culture”
April 25 Final Paper Due [12 noon]
April 28 Final Exam 12-2:30
