PHI 103.001 Course Schedule: Fall 2024

 

September

• Week I
  • 11: Introduction to course 
  • 13: Introduction to philosophy

 

• Week 2
  • 18: Introduction to Socrates + Plato 
  • 20: What is Justice? 

    Reading: Plato, Republic Bk. I 

 

• Week 3
  • 25: No classes scheduled
  • 27: What is Justice?

    Reading: Plato, Republic Bk. I 

    Watch: The Institute for Peace and Justice, PBS Newshour 

 

October

• Week 4
  • 2: What is Philosophy?  

    Reading: Plato, Apology 

  • 4: What is Philosophy?  

    Reading: Plato, Apology 

  • Paper I Due

 

• Week 5
  • 9: No classes scheduled
  • 10: Monday classes meet, Introduction to Aristotle
  • 11: What is Friendship?

    Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

 

• Week 6
  • 16: What is Friendship?
  • Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

• • 18: What is Moral?  Considering the Consequences of an Action
  • Reading: J.S. Mill, Utilitarianism

 

• Week 7
  • 23: No classes scheduled, college assessment day
  • 25: What is Moral?  Considering the Consequences of an Action 

    Reading: J.S. Mill, Utilitarianism

 

• Week 8
  • 30: Midterm Review
  • 1: Midterm exam

 

November

• Week 9
  • 6: What is Moral?  Considering The Motive of an Action
  • Reading: Kant, Deontology
  • 8: What is Moral?  Considering The Motive of an Action

    Reading: Kant, Deontology 

 

• Week 10
  • 13: What does Moral Progress Look Like?  
  • Reading: Kant, “What is Enlightenment”

• • 15: Existentialism: What Philosophical Value is There in Human Experience?

    Reading: Nietzsche, Gay Science

• Week 11
  • 20: What can Philosophy do?
  • Reading: Nietzsche, Gay Science, Cont.
  • 22: No classes scheduled 

• Week 12
  • 27: What is The Purpose of Education?    
  • Reading: Plato, Republic Bk. II
  • Paper II Due 
  • 29: What can Art do?
  • Reading: Plato, Republic Bk. X

     

December

• Week 13
  • 4: The Experience of The Poet
  • Reading: Audre Lorde + Paul Celan 
  • 6: What can Art Teach Us? 

    Reading: James Baldwin: Notes to Teachers + The Fire Next Time 

• Week 14
  • 11: Catch-up day 
  • 13: Final exam or culminating experience