Mon., Jan. 5: (no reading, first class).
Wed., Jan. 7: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 1, Prologue and ch. 1-5, 7-10, and 15-18.
Mon., Jan. 12: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 1, ch. 20-22,
45-50 and 52.
Wed., Jan. 14: Descartes, Discourse on the Method, parts 1 and 2 (pp. 20-31); First Meditation (pp. 76-9).
Mon., Jan. 19: selections from Aristotle (on substance and accident).
Wed., Jan. 21: selections from Plotinus, Porphyry, and John Philoponus (on substance and accident).
Mon., Jan. 26: selections from Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas (on
substance and accident) (and first
paper
due).
Wed., Jan. 28: Descartes, Second Meditation (pp. 80-86).
Mon., Feb. 2: Leibniz, ``Monadology'' (pp. 213-25), and selections
from Thomas Aquinas (on angels) (recommended).
Wed., Feb. 4: continued discussion of the ``Monadology.''
Mon., Feb. 9: no class (break).
Wed., Feb. 11: Leibniz, ``A New System of Nature,'' first three paragraphs (pp. 138-9); ``A Specimen of Dynamics,'' first two paragraphs (pp. 118-19); from letters to Clarke: 2.12 (p. 324), 3.17 (p. 327), 4.42 (p. 331), 5.107-11 (pp. 343-4), along with Clarke's replies to each (in handout); ``Discourse on Metaphysics,'' (pp. 35-68), §§8-16, 19-20, 24, 26-8.
Mon., Feb. 16: selections from Locke, Essay concerning Human
Understanding and Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (handout).
Wed., Feb. 18: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 2, Prologue, ch. 2-3, 7-10, 22-3, 26, 30-35.
Mon., Feb. 23: Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. 2, ch. 41, 54,
57-9, 64-5, 71-2, 74.
Wed., Feb. 25: Descartes, Third Meditation (pp. 86-98); Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, ``Pamphillus to Hermippus'' and part 1 (pp. 1-12) (and second paper due).
Mon., Mar. 1: Descartes, Fourth and Sixth Meditations
(pp. 98-105, 110-122).
Wed., Mar. 3: Descartes, Fifth Meditation (pp. 105-110); brief selections from other authors (required: St. Anselm, Leibniz, Kant; recommended: St. Thomas, Spinoza, Hegel) (on the Ontological Proof).
Mon., Mar. 8: Hume, Dialogues, parts 2-8 (pp. 13-53).
Wed., Mar. 10: Hume, Dialogues, parts 9-12 (pp. 54-89).
Wed., Mar. 17: third paper
due.