Thomas D. Gordon

Lecture One - 09/09/99: Introduction to the course. What is Philosophy? The main branches of philosophy.

Lecture Two - 09/14/99: The Pre-Socratics. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 1-55; "Socrates' Predecessors: Philosophy and the Natural Order," chap. 1 of Stumpf.

Lecture Three - 09/16/99: Socrates. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 56-77; Plato, Euthyphro.

Lecture Four - 09/21/99: Plato. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 78-103; Magee, pp. 14-30; Plato, Republic, Bk. VII. Assignment #1 Due.

Lecture Five - 09/23/99: Aristotle . Readings: Gaarder, pp. 104-120; Magee, pp. 34-54; Aristotle, Metaphysics, Bk. I. Term Paper Topics Due.

Lecture Six - 09/28/99: Hellenistic Philosophy. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 121-139; Stumpf, pp.108-129. Assignment #2 Due.

Lecture Seven - 09/30/99: Medieval Philosophy, pt. 1. Readings, Gaarder, pp. 140-164; Magee, pp. 58-75.

Lecture Eight - 10/05/99: Medieval Philosophy, pt. 2. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 165-187. Assignment #3 Due.

Lecture 9 - 10/12/99: The Renaissance & The New Science. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 188-232; Stumpf, pp. 201-234.

Lecture 11 - 10/14/99: Descartes. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 216-246; Magee, pp. 78-95; Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, First and Second Meditations.

Lecture 12 - 10/19/99: Spinoza & Leibniz. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 245-256; Magee, pp. 98-117. Assignment #4 Due.

Lecture 13 - 10/21/99: British Empiricism, pt. 1. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 257-266; 282-302; Magee, pp. 120-143.

Lecture 14 - 10/26/99: British Empiricism, pt. 2. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 267-281; Magee, pp. 146-167. Assignment #5 Due.

Lecture 15 - 10/28/99: French Enlightenment Philosophers. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 303-321.

Lecture 16 - 11/2/99: Kant. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 322-341; Magee, 170-187. Assignment #6 Due.

Lecture 17 - 11/9/99: Rousseau & Romanticism. Readings, Gaarder, pp. 342-359; Stumpf, pp. 290-298.

Lecture 18 - 11/16/99: Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, pt. 1. Self-directed reading: Fichte, Schelling, Schleiermacher. Assignment #7 Due.

Lecture 19 - 11/18/99: Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, pt. 2: Hegel & Marx. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 360-371, 385-403; Magee, pp. 190-208.

Lecture 20 - 11/23/99: Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, pt. 3: Schopenhauer & Nietzscshe. Readings: Stumpf, pp. 342-352, 419-430. Magee, pp. 212-251. Assignment #8 Due.

Lecture 21 - 11/30/99: Nineteenth Century Philosophy in England & France. Self-directed reading: Bentham, Mill, Spencer, Comte, Bergson. Assignment #9 Due.

Lecture 22 - 12/2/99: Two New Sciences: Darwin & Freud. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 404-446.

Lecture 23 - 12/7/99: American Pragmatism. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 447-484; Magee, pp. 280-297. Assignment #10 Due.

Lecture 24 - 12/9/99: Existentialism & Other Contemporary Philosophical Movements. Readings: Gaarder, pp. 372-384, 485-513; Stumpf, pp. 481-527. Term Papers Due.