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Week 1: Logic:
Inductive and Deductive Arguments (PDF
Outline)
Week 2: Plato,
Republic,
Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
PDF Outline
Week 3: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book
I,
Book II,
Book
X (Eudemonia) (PDF
Outline)
Week 3: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII,
Book IX (Relationships)
Week 4: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 4: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 4: Religion: Steven Jay
Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria"
Text
Week 4: Religion: Dalai Lama,
"Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions"
Text
Week 4: Religion:
Arguments for the Existence of God
PDF
Outline
Week
5: Religion:
The Problem of Evil
PDF
Outline
Week 5: Immanuel Kant, The Categorical
Imperative
Text
PDF Outline
Week 5: Immanuel Kant:
Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism, Ch.1: Kant
Week 6: Mid-Term Exam; Term Paper Writing Workshop
Week
7: Ethics:
Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
Week
8: Ethics:
Jeremy Bentham, On the Principle
of Utility (Text)
READ THIS FOR THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM
Week
8: Feminist Ethics
PDF
Week
9: Phenomenology and
Existentialism, Solomon,
Ch. 2: Hegel
Outline
Week
9: Phenomenology and
Existentialism, Solomon,
Ch. 3:
Kierkegaard
Outline
Week
10: Existentialism: Solomon,
Ch. 4: Nietzsche
Outline
/ Movie
Week
11: Existentialism: Sartre,
Existentialism is a Humanism
Week 11: Existentialism: Sartre, "On Bad Faith"
in Being and Nothingness
Week 11: Existentialism:
Examining the Self in Modernity - The American Consumer Society
Week 12: Exam 3
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