Current Reading Assignments
(Updated Daily!)

Week 1

May 17 & 18: A Little Bit of Logic (handout), Plato’s Euthyphro (in The Trail and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube), Plato's Euthyprho (handout)
May 19: The Ontological Argument (handout), St Anselm's Proslogium: Chapter II and Chapter III
May 20: The Cosmological Argument (handout), St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica

Week 2

May 24: The Teleological Argument (handout), David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: Part II  (pay particular attention to the fifth paragraph +)
May 25: Dostoyevsky's "Rebellion" in The Grand Inquisitor (which is in The Brother's Karamozov)
May 26: The Problem of Evil (handout), J.L. Mackie's Evil and Omnipotence [optional!]--note: you will need access to jstor to follow this link, which you can get    
    anywhere on campus, or through the university's proxy server.

May 26, 27, & 28: Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of MoralsNietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals (handout)

Week 3

May 30: No Class!!! Memorial Day!!
May 31: Descartes' Meditations of First Philosophy (First and Second Med.), Descartes Meditations 1 & 2 (handout)
June 1: Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section IV
June 2 & 3: Descartes' Meditations of First Philosophy (Third Med.), Lewis' "Elusive Knowledge" (hard copy given out in class)

*First Paper Due: Friday June 3!!!*

Week 4


June 6-7: Daniel Dennett's "Where Am I?"
June 7-10: Perry's A Dialogue on Personal Identity, Perry: Personal Identity (handout)

Week 5
*Second Paper Due: Moday June 13!!!*

June 13-17: Plato's Symposium, Love


Week 6
*Third Paper Due: Monday June 20!!!*



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