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Week 01: Logic
and Critical Thinking
Week
01:
Inductive and Deductive Arguments
(Outline)
Week
01: Critical Thinking,
Ch. 01: Critical Thinking: It Matters (Optional Outline)
Week
01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 02: Critical Thinking and Clear Writing (Optional Outline)
Week 01: Critical Thinking,
Ch.
03: Credibility (Optional Outline)
Week 01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 04: Persuasion Through Rhetoric (Optional Outline)
Week 01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 05: More Rhetorical Devices (Optional Outline)
Week 01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 06: More
Fallacies (Optional Outline)
Week 01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 07: The Anatomy and Varieties of Arguments (Optional Outline)
Week 01:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 10: Inductive
Arguments (Optional Outline)
Week 01: Practice
Logic Quiz
PDF
Week 02: Is Happiness
Subject or Objective?
Week 02: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book
I,
Book II,
Book
X (Eudemonia) (Outline)
Week 02: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII,
Book IX (Relationships)
Week 02:
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness
(Text)
Week 02: Eric
Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
Week 03: Is
Morality Objective or Subjective?
Week 03: Ethics:
Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
Week 03: Ethics:
Jeremy Bentham / John Stuart Mill on Utility (Text)
(Outline)
Week 03: Ethics:
Immanuel Kant on the Categorical Imperative (Text)
(Outline)
Week 04:
Is There a Human Nature?
Week 04: Plato, Republic
(Outline)
Week 04: Plato,
Republic,
Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Week 04: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
(Review)
Week
04: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan,
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition
Week 04: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature
Week 05: Which Form of Government is the Best?
Week 05: Aristotle,
Politics (Outline)
Week 05: Aristotle,
Politics, Book IV: Constitutional Systems
Week 05: John Locke,
The Second Treatise on Government
Week 05: James Madison,
"Federalist Paper No. 10"
Week 05: American Political Thought:
John Adams, James Madison, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority,
Richard Henry Lee (Text)
Week 06: Are Capitalism, Globalization,
and American Consumer Society
Beneficial or Detrimental?
Week 06:
Free-Market (Capitalism) versus Command Economy
(Communism)
Week 06: Benjamin Barber,
Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV:
Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)
(Outline)
Week 06: Globalization and
Consumerism: Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, Ch. 1: A
Global Family Portrait (Text)
Week 06: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text),
Chapter 3 (Text),
Chapter 5 (Text)
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