Tues., Jan. 6: (no reading, first class).2
I. Background: Aristotelian Metaphysics
Thurs., Jan. 8: selections from Aristotle (on substance and accident).
Tues., Jan. 13: selections from Aristotle and Porphyry (on the
predicables and the categories).
Thurs., Jan. 15: selections from Plotinus, Porphyry, Avicenna, and Thomas Aquinas (on substance and accident). ME #1/2 due.
II. Descartes
Tues., Jan. 20: Descartes, Discourse on the Method, parts 1-3 (pp. 20-35), part 6, first paragraph (p. 46); Principles of Philosophy I.1-3 (p. 160), IV.207 (p. 212). ME #3 due.
Thurs., Jan. 22: First Meditation (pp. 76-9). No ME due.
Tues., Jan. 27: beginning of Second Meditation (pp. 80-83,
through the paragraph ending ``in this restricted sense of the term it
is simply thinking''); Principles of Philosophy I.9-10
(p. 162-3), .20 (pp. 166-7); Objections and Replies, selection
entitled ``[Appendix: Arguments Arranged in Geometrical Fashion],''
pp. 150-52. ME #4
due.
Thurs., Jan. 29: remainder of Second Meditation (pp. 83-6); Principles of Philosophy I.8 (p. 162), .11 (p. 163), .45-8 (pp. 175-6), .51-4 (pp. 177-8), .63 (p. 182), .66 (p. 183), II.4 (pp. 190-91). ME #5 due.
Tues., Feb. 3: Third and Fifth Meditations
(pp. 86-98; 105-110) and first paper
due. No ME due.
Thurs., Feb. 5: Fourth Meditation (pp. 98-105); Principles of Philosophy I.6 (p. 161); Objections and Replies, selection entitled ``[The indifference of the will]'' (pp. 134-5). ME #6 due. (Note: ME #6 is slightly longer and includes questions covering the previous two readings.)
Tues., Feb. 10: Sixth Meditation (pp. 110-22); Passions of the Soul I.17-18 (p. 225), .25 (pp. 227-8); .30-35
(pp. 229-32); .39-41 (p. 233); .49-50
(pp. 237-8). ME #7
due.
III. Spinoza
Thurs, Feb. 12: Spinoza, Ethics, I, beginning through Scholium to Prop. 15 (pp. 31-43). Theologico-Political Treatise, ch. 7, tr. Elwes, pp. 98-top of 101 (ending ``which occur in the Bible''). (Readings from this text will be available on e-reserve) ME #8 due.
Tues., Feb. 17: Ethics, I, Prop. 16 through end
(pp. 43-62). Theologico-Political Treatise, pp. 101-4
(ending ``its meaning concerning them''). ME #9
due.
Thurs., Feb. 19: Ethics, II, beginning through Scholium to Prop. 18 (pp. 63-79). Theologico-Political Treatise, paragraph beginning at the bottom of p. 106 (``We have thus shown ...'') and ending on p. 107 (``...about the former''); top of p. 114 (beginning ``There only remains'')-top of p. 117 (ending ``the learned fare alike''). ME #10 due.
Tues., Feb. 24: Spinoza, Ethics, II, Prop. 19 to end
(pp. 80-101). Theologico-Political Treatise, pp. 117-119 and
second
paper
due. No ME due..
Thurs., Feb. 26: Spinoza Ethics, III, beginning through Scholium to Prop. 11 (pp. 102-111) and Prop. 53 (p. 136); IV, Definitions (pp. 155-6) and Prop. 28 (p. 168); V, Preface (pp. 201-3), Prop. 4 (p. 206) and Prop. 14 to end (pp. 210-23). ME #11 due.
IV. Leibniz
Tues., Mar. 3: Leibniz, ``A New System of Nature,'' first three paragraphs (pp. 138-9); from letters to Clarke: (1.4?), 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;3``A Specimen of Dynamics,'' first two paragraphs (pp. 118-19); ``Discourse on Metaphysics,'' §§4 8-12, 24, 26-8, 33 (pp. 40-44, 56-7, 58-60, 64-5). ME #12 due.
Thurs., Mar. 5: ``A New System of Nature,'' remaining part (pp. 139-45); ``Monadology,'' §§1-61 (pp. 213-21). No ME due.
Tues., Mar. 10: selections from Thomas Aquinas (on angels);
Leibniz, from letters to de Volder, last two paragraphs of B, first
paragraph of C, and first paragraph of D (pp. 178-9, 181-2);
``Monadology,'' §§62-81 (pp. 221-3). ME #13
due.
Thurs., Mar. 12: ``Dialogue on Human Freedom,'' pp. 111-17; letter to Coste (pp. 193-6); ``Discourse on Metaphysics,'' §§13-16, 19-20, 30-32, 35-7 (pp. 44-9, 52-3, 60-64, 66-8); ``Monadology,'' §§ 82-end (pp. 223-5). No ME due.
Wed., Mar. 18: third (final) paper
due.