Meeting Date Reading Topic & URLs, other info
1 January 8
Introductory Information
2 January 10
Background of American Philosophy -
 Metaphysics and Epistemology
3 January 15 "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and "The Nature of True Virtue" Jonathan Edwards-- http://www.dallas.net/~trigsted/sermons/Sinners.htm and http://www.jonathanedwards.com/theology.htm
4 January 17 "Freedom of the Will" and "A Divine and Supernatural Light" Jonathan Edwards--Omit "Freedom of the Will" (necessary concepts will be done in class) because both of the current links go nowhere; "A Divine and Supernatural Light" appears at http://www.jonathanedwards.com in the "Special Sermons" section. 
5
 Jan 22
 Continue Edwards/Begin Franklin
6
 January 24 Letters to Ralph and Stiles Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine -- Franklin online (see link below), Paine at:  http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/AOR-Frame.html


Franklin notes
7
 January 29 Continue The Age of Reason, "Introduction to the Woman's Bible" Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Edwards and Paine Notes

8
 Jan 31
Library Research - remember to submit a brief document to receive credit for attending.  See the assignments link in WebCT.
9
 Feb 5
 Continue Paine
 Notes on Paine and Religious Liberalism
"Introduction to the Woman's Bible" (and complete text) at http://www.undelete.org/library/library0041.html
10
 Feb 7
Begin Stanton/Move to Feb 12
11
 Feb 12
 Stanton
 A note on The Woman's Bible and more....
12
 Feb 14
 "Self-Reliance" R.W. Emerson -- -"The American Scholar" at http://books.mirror.org/gb.emerson.html#americanscholar

-"Self-Reliance" in First Series of Essays at http://books.mirror.org/emerson/essays1.txt - you have to scroll down through other essays to reach this one.


Some notes on Emerson
13
 Feb 19
 "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"
 C.S. Peirce -- "Fixation of Belief" at http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html

"How to Make our Ideas Clear" at: http://peirce.org/writings/p119.html


Some notes on Peirce

14
 Feb 21
 "What Pragmatism Means" and "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth"
 William James -- -"What Pragmatism Means" at http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html#odds

-"Pragmatism's Conception of Truth" at http://paradigm.soci.brocku.ca/~lward/James/James1_02.html


Some notes on James
15
 Feb 26
 Midterm Exam
 Midterm Exam Review - Complete - posted 02/23/02
16
Feb 28
Introduction to American Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
17
 Mar 5
 Part II, The Rights of Man
 Notes on The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine-The Rights of Man at http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/rights_of_man/index.shtml
18
 Mar 7
 More on Thomas Paine
 Common Sense , Intro, Chs. 1, 2, 3 and The American Crisis, Chs. 1, 2
-Common Sense at http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/ and at http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/CS-Frame.html

-The American Crisis at http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/Crisis/Crisis-TOC.html



Mar 12-14
SPRING BREAK
19
 Mar 19
 Continue Thomas Paine; The Federalist Papers, 10 and 51
 -The Federalist Papers at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fedpapers.html
BEGIN EMERSON AND THOREAU.
20
 Mar 21
 "Politics," "Civil Disobedience"
   CLASS WILL BE CANCELLED TODAY.   Emerson, Thoreau

-Emerson's "Politics" at http://books.mirror.org/emerson/essays2.txt - you have to scroll to find the document.

Civil Disobedience at:  http://eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html


21
 Mar 26
 Continue and Complete Emerson and Thoreau; Grimke's  "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"; and begin Stanton and Sojourner Truth (see 3/28)
 Grimke - see the link on the sidebar in WebCT for access to the Word document file containing the "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" by Sarah Grimke.
 
Go to the sidebar on WebCT for the link to the file on S. Grimke.
22
 Mar 28
 "Ain't I a Woman?,"  "Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments," "Solitude of Self"
 Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
-"Ain't I a Woman" at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.html

-"Solitude of Self" at http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/studies/solself.html

Seneca Falls "Declarataion of Sentiments and Convention Resolutions" at http://ecssa.rutgers.edu/docs/seneca.html

Stanton's address on Woman's Rights in 1848 a http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/ecswoman1.html


23
 Apr 2
 "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South," "Declaration of Sentiments of the Anti-Slavery Society," "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
 Grimke, W.L. Garrison, Frederick Douglass

"Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/grimkehp.html

"Declaration of Sentiments at:  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/abeswlgct.html

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" at:  http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/doug_a10.htm , 
24 Apr 4
 William James and John Dewey  "What Makes a Life Significant"
Dewey - Selection from Quest for Certainty - ON RESERVE - this work is missing from the Library.  Copy of Chapter X distributed in class.  If you didn't receive one, pick a copy up during my office hours.

-"What Makes a Life Significant" at http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/jsignificant.html



Apr 9
 "Letter from Birmingham Jail," "The Ballot or the Bullet"
 M.L. King, Jr and Malcolm X

-"Letter from Birmingham Jail" at http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/mlkbirm.htm

"Ballot...." at http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/065.html



26 Apr 11
 Selections from Rawls and Nozick - TBA
 John Rawls and Robert Nozick-Nozick's book is on reserve in the Library.  You need pp. 149-204 on distributive justice.

Rawls article online in JSTOR - 1958, "Justice as Fairness" 
Nozick will be on reserve.
27 April 16 "What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory?", "Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory," Selection from Jean Hampton (TBA), Selections from Marilyn Frye from The Politics of Reality and Willful Virgin
 Annette Baier, Virginia Held, Jean Hampton, Marilyn Frye

The articles by Annette Baier and Virginia Held can be found on JSTOR. Baier and Held are available on JSTOR.  You can find the articles with a search for their names or the names of the articles.  Hampton and Frye will be on reserve.

The Hampton article is missing.  I'll search for a replacement to be put on reserve.  Marilyn Frye's Politics of Reality is on reserve.  You need the essays "In and Out of Harm's Way" and "On Being White."
28
 April 18
FINAL EXAM IN CLASS, LAST DAY OF CLASSES.
28 Finals Week - THE FINAL EXAM IS NOT GIVEN DURING FINALS WEEK.