Readings

[P] = Buy at Amazon Plato. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics). 2nd ed. Edited by John M. Cooper. Translated by G. M. A. Grube. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporation, 2002. ISBN: 9780872206335. [Preview with Google Books]

[D] = Buy at Amazon Descartes, René. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. 4th ed. Translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing Company, 1999. ISBN: 9780872204201.

[K] = Buy at Amazon Kant, Immanuel. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns. 3rd ed. Translated by James W. Ellington. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporation, 1993. ISBN: 9780872201668. [Preview with Google Books]

[H] = Buy at Amazon Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 2nd ed. Hackett, 2012. ISBN: 9780872202290.

[PV] = Buy at Amazon Pojman, Louis P., and Lewis Vaughn. Classics of Philosophy. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780199737291.

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 First class None
Socrates (c. 470 BCE - 399 BCE) and Plato (429? BCE - 347 BCE)
2 Socrates and the Law

[P] "Apology."

Recommended

[P] "Crito."
3 Elenchus [P] "Euthyphro."
4 Akrasia & Pragmatic Paradox [P] "Meno 70a–80d."
5 Knowledge and Learning [P] "Meno 80d–100b."
6 The Soul in Plato [P] "Phaedo 57a–95b."
Aristotle (384 BCE - 322 BCE)
7 The Soul in Aristotle

[PV] "On the Soul, Books II–III."

[PV] "Politics I."

Aristotle. "On the Generation of Animals." 2016.
8 Happiness [PV] "Nichomachean Ethics: Book I" (especially chapters 1 and 7–8).
9 Virtue [PV] "Nichomachean Ethics: Book II" (especially chapter 6).
Renè Descartes (1596–1650)
10 Skepticism [D] "Meditation 1."
11 Cogito [D] "Meditation 2."
12 Existence of God [D] "Meditations 3 and 5."
13 Distinction between Mind and Body

[D] "Meditation 6."

Buy at Amazon Atherton, Margaret. "Selections from her Correspondence with Descartes: Elisabeth to Descartes." In Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporation, 1994. ISBN: 9780872202597. [Preview with Google Books]

Recommended

Buy at Amazon Descartes, Rene. Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings. Translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 139–43. ISBN: 9780521358125. [Preview with Google Books]
Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)
14 Intelligent Matter Buy at Amazon Cavendish, Margaret. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). Edited by Eileen O'Neill. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 125–49. ISBN: 9780521776752. [Preview with Google Books]
David Hume (1711–1776)
15 Empiricism [H] "Enquiry 1–3."
16 Induction [H] "Enquiry 4–5."
17 Causation [H] "Enquiry 7."
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
18 The Good Will

[K] "First Section."

Kant, Immanuel. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."Of the Different Human Races."
19 Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives [K] "Second Section."
20 Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives (Cont.) None
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
21 Utilitarianism Buy at Amazon Mill, John Stuart. Chapters 2 and 4 in Utilitarianism. 4th ed. Edited by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN: 9781492144090.
22 Women's Rights? Buy at Amazon ———. Chapters 1–2 in The Subjection of Women. 1st ed. Edited by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. Nabu Press, 2010. ISBN: 9871172450848.
23 Slavery

Buy at Amazon ———. "Book 2: Of Slavery." Chapter 5 in Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. Edited by William J. Ashley. Adamant Media Corporation, 2001. ISBN: 9780543794505.

Buy at Amazon Douglass, Frederick. Chapters XIV–XVII in My Bondage and My Freedom. Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780140439182. (Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina)
W. E. B. DuBois (1868–1963)
24 Double Consciousness

Buy at Amazon Du Bois, W. E. B. Chapters 1–2 in The Souls of Black Folk. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781505223378. [Preview with Google Books]

Recommended

Buy at Amazon ———. "Of the Sons of Master and Man." Chapter 9 in The Souls of Black Folk. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. ISBN: 9781505223378.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)
25 Transcendence Buy at Amazon Beauvoir, Simone de, Constance Borde, and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. The Second Sex. Vintage, 2011, pp. 23–29. ISBN: 9780307277787.
26 Last class None