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Philosophy 401
Fall 1995
Office: JUB 303
Office Hours: MW 12:30 - 1:30, TTH 1:00 - 2:00, and by appointment
Phone: 898-5774
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Each student will be required to:
- write one take-home exam and one, final, in-class exam.
- The first exam will be due Thursday, October 26.
- The second exam is scheduled for Tuesday December 12, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm.
- write a final term paper of 8 - 12 pages on a topic/philosopher covered in the course. The paper will be due Tuesday December 5.
If you wish, we will schedule short "conferences" (for lack of a better term) to discuss your grade. The grades will be determined on the basis of an evaluation of the following: the two exams, the final paper, and general class discussion.
Wheelwright, The Presocratics
Plato, The Republic
Plato, The Theatetus
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure
Augustine, Photocopies from the Instructor
Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge)
Hyland, The Origins of Philosophy (Humanities)
Sallis, Being and Logos (Humanities)
Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking (Harper & Row)
Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (Rowman & Littlefield)
Gadamer, The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelean Philosophy (Yale)
August 24: Introduction
August 29 - September 7: Presocratics (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, and Parmenides)
September 4: Labor Day, No Classes
September 7: Greek Alphabet Quiz
September 12 - October 5: Plato's Republic
October 10 - October 24: Plato's Theatetus
October 26: 1st Exam due
October 26 - November 14: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
November 16 - November 30: Foucault
December 5 - December 7: Augustine
December 5: Term Paper Due
December 12: Final Exam
If you'd like to check out some other stuff on the World Wide Web (called the Web), you can follow this link to my Web page, which will lead you to lots of other philosophy sources (as well as other information) on the Web. Have a Blast! My Web Page
Here's a list that provides introductions to a number of different philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle. It also has links to several different philosophy Web pages. Bjorn Christensson's Philosophers Guide
If you'd like to get an early start on the mid-term take-home exam, you can go to it now. Mid-Term
If you have questions, you may either come by the office, phone me, or email me by clicking on the address. Please enter the words "ancient class" for the subject line. jpurcell@frank.mtsu.edu
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