Schedule of Meetings
Aug. 30: Introduction to the course
Sep. 1: What is Philosophy?
Sep. 6: Labor Day—Class cancelled
Sep. 8: Class cancelled
Philosophy, Rhetoric, Politics
Sep. 13: Gorgias
Sep. 15: Gorgias
Sep. 20: Al-Farabi, From the Book of Letters
Sep. 22: Book of Letters
Sep. 27: Spinoza, Introduction to the Theological-Political Treatise
Sep. 29: Introduction
Oct. 4: Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”
Oct. 6: Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”; First examination distributed
Oct. 11: Columbus Day—Classes Cancelled
Metaphysics, Epistemology
Oct. 13: Aristotle, From the Categories; First exam collected
Oct. 18: Aristotle, From the Physics
Oct. 20: Aquinas, From the Summa Theologica
Oct. 25: Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, 1, 2
Oct. 27: Meditations 2,3
Nov. 1: Meditations 2,3
Nov. 3: Meditations 3,4
Nov. 8: Hume, “Abstract ...”
Nov. 10: “Abstract”
Nov. 15: Nietzsche, “On Truth and Falsity in Their Extramoral Sense”
Nov. 17: Quine, “On What There Is”
Nov. 22: Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”; Essay assigned
Nov. 24: “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
Existentialism
Nov. 29: Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism”; Essay collected
Dec. 1: Sartre, Nausea
Dec. 6: Nausea
Dec. 8: Nausea
Dec. 13: Nausea
Dec. 17: Final examination
