An examination of major figures in Western philosophy with an aim of discerning characteristic philosophic problems and their interconnections. Emphasis is on Plato and Aristotle in the fall term.
Books (available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street):
Plato, Plato: Complete Works ed., John Cooper (Hackett)
Aristotle, New Aristotle Reader, ed., Ackrill (Princeton Univ. Press)
Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Skepticism, Annas and Barnes, trans. (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Aquinas, Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas ed., Anton C. Pegis (McGraw-Hill)
Epictetus Handbook, Nicholas White, trans. (Hackett)
Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will (Hackett)
Grading:
TBA
Papers are due Friday before 11 a.m. in the Philosophy Office (Connecticut Hall) in Prof. Summers' mailbox.
Week 4: First Philosophy Paper due September 23
Week 7: Second Philosophy Paper due October 14
Week 12: Third Philosophy Paper due November 18
| Week (Date of Lecture) | Author | Work | Lecturer |
| 1. August 29 (no lecture) | Plato | Euthyphro | No Lecture |
| 2. September 5 | Plato | Phaedo | Ganssle |
| 3. September 12 | Plato | Symposium | Obdrzalek |
| 4. September 19 | Plato | Republic, Books I-IV | Smith |
| 5. September 26 | Plato | Republic, Books V-X | Smith |
| 6. October 3 | Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and X | Kronman |
| 7. October 10 | Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics, Books II; VI; 1, 2, 12, 13; VII: 1-3 | Kreines |
| 8. October 17 | Aristotle | Physics I: 7-9; II. Categories 1-5 | Summers |
| 9. October 24 | Aristotle | De Anima II 1-4. Metaphysics Z 7-11; H 6; Th 6-7 | Obdrzalek |
| 10. October 31 | Epictetus | Handbook | Gilmore |
| 11. November 7 | Sextus Empiricus | Outlines of Pyrrhonism | Summers |
| 12. November 14 | Augustine | On Free Choice of the Will | Kronman |
| 13. November 28 | Aquinas | Summa Theologica. Q. 2, a. 1-3; Q. 3, a. 3,4,7; Q 7, a. 1-4 | Ganssle |
Supplementary [Required] Colloquia; WHC Lecture Hall; 4:00 pm.
1. September 14, Anthony Kronman, "On the Humanities."
2. October 19, Kenji Yoshino, "On Plato Banishing the Poets and Victims Statements in Court."
3. November 3, Leslie Brisman and Christine Hayes, "On the Bible as Literature."
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