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Week 02: Logic:
Inductive and Deductive Arguments (Outline)
(Practice Logic Exam)
(Practice
Logic Exam Key)
Week 02: Chomsky, Media Control: The
Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Week 02: Chomsky, A Propaganda Model (Outline)
(Recommended)
Week 02: Plato,
Republic,
Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Week 03: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book
I,
Book II,
Book
X (Eudemonia) (Outline)
Week 03: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII,
Book IX (Relationships)
Week 04: NO CLASS,
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
Week 05:
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness
(Text)
Week 05: Eric
Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
Week 06: Ethics:
Ethical Dilemma
Week 06: Ethics:
Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
Week 06: Ethics:
Jeremy Bentham, On the Principle
of Utility (Text)
Week 06: Ethics:
Mill on
Utilitarianism
Week 06: Ethics:
Immanuel Kant, The Categorical
Imperative (Text)
Week 07: Gender and
Feminist Ethics:
Do Sex and Gender Roles Burden Women more than Men?
Week 07: Gender
and Feminist Ethics: Carol Gilligan,
In a
Different Voice
Week 08: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 08: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 08: Religion: Steven Jay
Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Text)
Week 08: Religion: Dalai Lama,
"Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions"
(Text)
Week 08: Religion:
Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
Week 09: Religion:
The Problem of Evil (Outline)
Week 09: Review for
Mid-term Exam
Week 10: Mid-term
Exam
Week 11:
Existentialism, Readings TBA
Week 12:
Existentialism, Readings TBA
Week 13: Plato, Republic
(Outline
of Entire Book)
Week 14: Aristotle,
Politics,
Book IV: Constitutional Systems (Outline
of Entire Book)
Week 15: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition
Week 15: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature
Week 15: John Locke,
The Second Treatise on Government
Week 15: James Madison,
"Federalist Paper No. 10"
Week 15: American Political
Thought: John Adams, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority, Richard
Henry Lee (Text)
Week 15:
Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy, Preface, 2003 edition (Text)
Week 15: Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy, Ch. 1: Thin Democracy: Politics as Zookeeping
(Text)
Week 15: Benjamin Barber,
Strong Democracy, Ch. 4: The Psychological Frame: Apolitical Man
(Text)
Week 15:
T. Le, "Human Nature, Liberal
Democracy, and Strong Democracy" (Text)
Week 16: Benjamin Barber,
Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV:
Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)
Week 16: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text)
Week 17: Review for Final Exam
Week 18: Final Exam
(Friday, May 28, 2010)
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