1.  Plato's Euthyphro
2.  Plato's Apology
        Plato's Crito - in class notes only
3.  An Outline of Arguments for the Existence of God
4.  Short Outline of "God" Arguments with Characteristics of an Ultimate Being
5.  Notes on the Ontological Argument
6.  Pascal's Wager
7.  William James's "Will to Believe"
8.  Leibnizian Theodicy
 

9.    Plato- Republic - in class notes only.
10.  Descartes
10a.  Descartes, detailed notes, comments & arguments  - added 9/27/2000
11.  Locke - From Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    11a.  Review Questions on Locke
12.  Berkeley - immaterialism
    See also more Berkeley notes
13.  Hume - skepticism
    See also more Hume notes
14.  Notes on Peirce's "Fixation of Belief"
        14a.  REVIEW QUESTIONS ON HUME AND PEIRCE
15.  Notes on d'Holbach and James - added 7/11/2000
 

17.  ETHICS NOTES - Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche
18.  Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus
19.  Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
20.  Baier's "What Do Women Want in a Moral Theory?" -- see #22, below.
21.  Social and Political Philosophy - Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Locke
22.  Part II of Social and Political Philosophy: Mill from ON LIBERTY, Wollstonecraft & Baier
23.  Marx, from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
24.  Thoreau, from "Civil Disobedience"
25.  Review Questions on Epicurus, Emerson, Marx, and Thoreau

Order of presentation for last 1/3 of course content (9:00 and 10:00 classes):  Aristotle's ethical theory, Epicureanism, Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism, Nietzsche and Emerson, Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise, Mill from On Liberty, Marx, Thoreau, Wollstonecraft, and Baier.

Order of presentation for 2:00 class:
Aristotle's ethical theory, Epicureanism, Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism, Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Mill from On Liberty, Marx, Nietzsche and Emerson, Thoreau, Wollstonecraft, and Baier

This page was updated on 11/04/2000