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WEEK 01 - 03: LOGIC
Week
01 - 03: Logic:
Inductive and Deductive Arguments
(Outline)
Week
01 - 03: Critical Thinking,
Ch. 01: Critical Thinking: It Matters (Optional Outline)
Week 01 - 03:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 02: Critical Thinking and Clear Writing (Optional Outline)
Week 01 - 03: Critical Thinking,
Ch.
03: Credibility (Optional Outline)
Week 01 - 03:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 04: Persuasion Through Rhetoric (Optional Outline)
Week 01 - 03:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 05: More Rhetorical Devices (Optional Outline)
Week 01 - 03:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 06: More
Fallacies (Optional Outline)
Week 01 - 03:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 07: The Anatomy and Varieties of Arguments (Optional Outline)
Week 01 - 03:
Critical Thinking,
Ch. 10: Inductive
Arguments (Optional Outline)
Week 04: IS HAPPINESS AND
ETHICS OBJECTIVE OR SUBJECTIVE?
Week 04: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book
I,
Book II,
Book
X (Eudemonia) (Outline)
Week 04: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII,
Book IX (Relationships)
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 xx: Ethics:
Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
Week xx: Ethics:
Jeremy Bentham / John Stuart Mill on Utility (Text)
Week xx: Ethics:
Immanuel Kant on the Categorical Imperative (Text)
Week xx: IS RELIGION
BENEFICIAL OR DETRIMENTAL TO SOCIETY?
Week xx: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week xx: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week xx: Religion: Steven Jay
Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Text)
Week xx: Religion: Dalai Lama,
"Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions"
(Text)
Week xx: Religion:
Ch.
6.1: Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
Week xx: Religion:
Ch. 6.2: The Problem of Evil (Outline)
Week xx: WHAT
IS THE BEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNANCE?
Week xx: Plato, Republic
(Outline)
Week xx: Plato,
Republic,
Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Week xx: Aristotle,
Politics (Outline)
Week xx: Aristotle,
Politics, Book IV: Constitutional Systems
Week xx: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition
Week xx: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature
Week xx: John Locke,
The Second Treatise on Government
Week xx: James Madison,
"Federalist Paper No. 10"
Week xx: American Political Thought:
John Adams, James Madison, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority,
Richard Henry Lee (Text)
Week xx: Benjamin
Barber, Strong Democracy, Preface, 2003 edition (Text)
Week xx: Benjamin
Barber, Strong Democracy, Ch. 1: Thin Democracy: Politics as
Zookeeping (Text)
Week xx: Benjamin
Barber,
Strong Democracy, Ch. 4: The Psychological Frame: Apolitical
Man (Text)
Week xx: IS CAPITALISM THE
BEST TYPE OF ECONOMY? IS AMERICAN CONSUMER SOCIETY DETRIMENTAL?
Week xx:
Globalization and Consumerism: Jeffrey Sachs, The
End of Poverty, Ch. 1: A Global Family Portrait
(Text)
Week xx: Benjamin Barber,
Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV:
Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)
(Outline)
Week xx: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text),
Chapter 3 (Text),
Chapter 5 (Text)
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