Readings

Weekly course text and video resource links.

Plato’s Meno

1. Read Plato’s Meno in its entirety: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html 
2. Answer study questions in “Assignments.”
3. Watch the Allegory of the Cave
   

Plato’s Apology

1. Read Plato’s Apology in its entirety: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”
3. Watch the life and trial of Socrates in youtube (part 3, The Empire of the Mind):

Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics

1. Read Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics Books 1 and 2: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”

Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics
 

1. Read Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics Book 3: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”

Descartes’ Meditations

1. Read Descartes’ Meditations 1 and 2: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”
3. Watch Neo “awaken” in the Matrix:

Descartes’ Meditations
 

1. Read Descartes’ Meditations 3 and 4: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”
   

Locke’s An Essay

1. Read John Locke’s An Essay on the Human Understanding: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/locke-the-works-vol-1-an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-part-1 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”
   

Berkeley’s Three Dialogues

1. Read George Berkeley’s Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous part 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”
3. Watch the “Reality of Reality” talk at the World Science Festival 2018

Kant’s Prolegomena

1. Read Immanuel Kant’s Prolegomena conclusion: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”
   

Epicurus’ Letter to Menoceus

1. Read Epicurus’ “Letter to Menoceus” in its entirety: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”
3. Watch “The Marshmallow Test”.
   

Epictetus’ Encheridion 

1. Read  Epictetus’ Encheiridion in its entirety: http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html
   
2. Answer study questions in “Assignments.
   

Hobbes’ Leviathan

1. Read Hobbes’ Leviathan: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”

Rousseau’s Social Contract

1. Read Rousseau’s The Social Contract: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”

Rousseau’s Social Contract

1. Read Rousseau’s The Social Contract: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Philosophy_(Bookshelf) 
2. Answer study questions on “Assignments.”

 

Week 15 

 Final Exams