Detailed calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. Sometimes a reading-guide handout will specify the details of an assignment, and it may include passages that are part of your assignment.
8/27 | introduction | |
9/1 | Plato | Euthyphro (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide |
9/3 | selections from Plato on injustice and ignorance (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide | |
9/8 | Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics (NE), bk. i, chs. 1-12—reading guide |
9/10 | NE, bk. i, ch. 13; bk. ii—reading guide | |
9/15 | NE, bk. iii, chs. 1-5; bk. vi, chs. 1-2, 5, 7-9, 11-13—reading guide | |
9/17 | NE, bk. iii, chs. 10-12; bk. vii, chs. 1-10—reading guide | |
9/22 | NE, bk. v, chs. 1-7—reading guide | |
9/24 | NE, bk. viii, chs. 1-3, 12-14; bk. ix, chs. 4, 8-9—reading guide | |
9/29 | NE, bk. x, chs. 4-9—reading guide | |
10/1 | Mengzi | Mengzi, 1A (1, 7), 1B (5-6, 8), 2A (2, 6), 2B (9), 4A (10), 4B (11-12, 19, 26), 5B (1)—reading guide |
10/6 | Mengzi, 6A (1-11, 15-17, 19), 6B (4, 15), 7A (1, 4, 15, 17), 7B (16, 31, 37)—reading guide | |
10/8 | Mengzi, 2B (2), 3A (2, 4-5), 3B (9), 4A (17-18, 27), 4B (6), 5A (2), 5B (4, 7-9), 6B (1, 14), 7A (26, 35, 43, 45), 7B (33)—reading guide | |
10/13 | Kant | Grounding for the Meta. of Morals, intro. & sect. I (1-17)—reading guide |
midsemester break
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10/20 | Grounding, sect. II (19-32)—reading guide | |
10/22 | Grounding, sect. II (32-48)—reading guide | |
10/27 | Grounding, sect. III (49-62)—reading guide | |
10/29 | sels. from Meta. of Morals (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet); “On a Supposed Right to Lie” (Grounding, 63-67)—reading guide | |
11/3 | Mill | Utilitarianism, chs. 1-2—reading guide |
11/5 | Utilitarianism, chs. 3-4—reading guide | |
11/10 | Utilitarianism, ch. 5—reading guide | |
11/12 | Moore | sels. from Principia Ethica (handout: 1up for viewing, 2up for printing, bkl for printing as a booklet)—reading guide |
11/17 | Nagel | “Ethics,” lect. III, pp. 119-139, of “The Limits of Objectivity” (pdf available at the Tanner lectures site)—reading guide |
11/19 | Sartre | Existentialism and Human Emotions, pp. 9-29—reading guide |
Thanksgiving break | ||
12/1 | Existentialism and Human Emotions, pp. 29-51—reading guide | |
12/3 | Existentialism and Human Emotions, pp. 52-59, 91-96—reading guide | |
12/8 | Baier | “Trust and Antitrust,” pp. 231-47 (on JSTOR at 2381376)—reading guide |
12/10 | “Trust and Antitrust,” pp. 247-60 (on JSTOR at 2381376)—reading guide | |
12/15 | Tu 1:30 | exam |