Hamline University - Phil. 1120 - General Philosophy - Fall, 2007 - Tom Atchison
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Date to be
discussed |
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Wednesday, Sept.64 |
Introductory session |
Friday, Sept. |
No class – Faculty/Staff Convocation |
Monday, Sept.10 |
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Wednesday, Sept.12 |
Plato, Apology |
Friday, Sept.14 |
Plato, Crito |
Monday, Sept.17 |
Plato, Meno |
Wednesday, Sept.19 |
Plato, Phaedo
(1st half)
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Friday, Sept.21 |
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Monday, Sept.25 |
Descartes, Meditations
1 and 2; |
Wednesday, Sept.26 |
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Friday, Sept.28 |
Descartes, Meditation
3; |
Monday, Oct.1 |
Descartes, Meditation 4
(just through AT 54, i.e., the first three paragraphs); |
Wednesday, Oct.3 |
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Friday, Oct.5 |
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Monday, Oct.8 |
Hume, Enquiry, Section
XII |
Wednesday, Oct.10 |
Descartes, AT 78 and AT
86 in Meditation 6 (two paragraphs containing arguments for the
separateness of mind and body); |
Friday, Oct.12 |
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Monday, Oct.15 |
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Wednesday, Oct.17 |
Hume, Enquiry, Section
VIII, "Of |
Friday, Oct.19 |
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Monday, Oct.22 |
Review |
Wednesday, Oct.24 |
Mid-term Exam |
Friday, Oct.26 |
No class – Midterm Break |
Monday, Oct.29 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 31 |
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Friday, Nov.2 |
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Monday, Nov.5 |
Blackburn, Chapter 5, pp.
163-168; Hume, Enquiry, Section XI, "Of Divine |
Wednesday, Nov.7 |
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Friday, Nov.9 |
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Monday, Nov.12 |
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Wednesday, Nov.14 |
Article on Immortality by D.Z.Phillips (Handout) |
Friday, Nov.16 |
Selections from Aristotle and
Burke
justifying inequality and hierarchical social relations |
Monday, Nov.19 |
Selections
from Hobbes on the natural equality of ‘man’ |
Wednesday, Nov.21 |
Locke, Second Treatise of
Government, Chapters II, III and IV; editor’s introduction, vii to xvi |
Friday, Nov.23 |
No class |
Monday, Nov.26 |
Locke, Second Treatise of
Government, Chapter V; editor’s introduction, xvi to xix |
Wednesday, Nov.28 |
Locke, Second Treatise of
Government, Chapters IX and XI (pp. 65-75) and sections 89-94 in
Chapter VII (pp. 47-51); editor’s introduction, xix to xxi ;
Notes on Locke |
Friday, Nov.30 |
Selections
from Equality by R. H. Tawney (online
here) |
Monday, Dec.3 |
"Equality,
Value, and Merit" by F. A. Hayek (online
here) |
Wednesday, Dec.5 |
“Equality
in a Multicultural Society” by Bhikhu Parekh (online
here) |
Friday, Dec7 |
"Rawls'
Defense of the Liberal Democratic Welfare State" by Stephen Nathanson
(online here) |
Monday, Dec.10 |
Locke, Second Treatise
of Government, Sections 77-82 (pp. 42-44) Selections from
Rousseau (online here), and notes on Mill
(from the University of Middlesex (UK) |
Wednesday, Dec.12 |
“After the Family Wage” by Nancy Fraser
(online: on-campus
link ; off-campus
link -- sign in with your Netmail username and password) |
Friday, Dec. 14 |
Review |
Tuesday, Dec.18,
2:45-4:45 |
Final Exam (in our regular classroom) |