Phil 375 – Ancient GreekPhilosophy --Spring, 2011
Metropolitan Sate University
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Paper writing guides:
Position Paper Assignments:
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Writing |
Jan. 10 |
Introduction |
Euthyphro (in class) |
Introduction Sheet |
Jan. 17 |
MLK Day – No class |
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Jan 24 |
The ‘Pre-Socratics’ |
Kenny, beginning to p. 28, 199-204, 229-234, 257-260, 289-290; primary texts online: Thales; Anaximander ; Anaximenes; Heraclitus; Parmenides; Zeno; Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans; Empedocles; Anaxagoras; Democritus |
Response Paper |
Jan. 31 |
Socrates |
Plato, Apology and Crito (links are to study questions); Kenny, pp.28-45, 260-263 |
Response Paper |
Feb. 7 |
Plato on Virtue |
Plato, Meno; Kenny, 45-49, |
Response Paper; 1st Position Paper |
Feb. 14 |
Plato on Death and Immortality |
Plato, Phaedo; Kenny, pp. 49-56, 234-237 |
Response Paper |
Feb. 21 |
Plato’s Republic |
Republic, Bks 1-3; White’s 'companion', pp. 61-105; Kenny, pp.56-60 |
Response Paper |
Feb. 28 |
Plato’s Republic |
Republic, Bks 4-6; White’s 'companion', pp.106-182 |
Response Paper |
March 7 |
Spring Break – No class |
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March 14 |
Plato’s Republic |
Republic Bks 7-10, White’s 'companion', pp.183-266 (plus the introduction); Kenny, pp. 156-60, 264-266 |
Response Paper |
March 21 |
Aristotle’s approach to philosophy |
Nichomachean Ethics Bk 1, Kenny, 65-91, 161-166, 205-228, 241-248 |
Response Paper; 2nd Position Paper |
March 28 |
Aristotle’s Ethics: Virtue and Justice |
Nicomachean Ethics, Bks 2-5; Kenny, 266-274; Aristotle on Slaves and Women; Study questions for Books II and III |
Response Paper |
April 4 |
Aristotle’s Ethics: Friendship, Pleasure, and Contemplation |
Nicomachean Ethics, Bks 6-10; Kenny, 274-277; 296-302 |
Response Paper |
April 11 |
Epicureans |
Kenny, pp.94-96, 101-102, 166-169, 277-279; Epicurus, Letters to Herodotus and Menoeceus, Inwood, pp. 5-19 and 28-31; Lucretius, in Inwood, pp. 63-65. |
Response Paper; 3rd Position Paper |
April 18 |
Stoics |
Kenny, pp.96-100, 106-109, 169-172, 192-196, 280-288; Inwood, Part II, pp. 111-114 (through paragraph 54), pp. 124-131, 179-190, 190-203, 232-260 |
Response Paper |
April 25 |
Skeptics |
Kenny, pp. 100 and pp. 172-177. Inwood and Gerson, Hellenistic Philosophy:
pp. 267-270 (Cicero, Academica, to paragraph 78); pp. 302-308 (Sextus on skepticism in general); pp. 316-339 (Sextus on the problem of the criterion and the modes of skepticism); pp. 374-376 (Sextus - Does anything cause anything?); pp. 387-397 (Sextus on skeptical ethics)
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Response Paper |
May 2 |
Wrap up |
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