Class Schedule

Sept 2: The Milesians

Readings:

a. Hesiod (Barnes, pp. 3-5)
b. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes (Barnes, pp. 9-27)
c. Aristotle: "Survey of the Presocratics" (Irwin and Fine, pp. 120-125)

Sept 4: The Eliatics

Readings:

a. Parmenides (Barnes, pp. 77-91)
b. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Parmenides (sections 3.1 - 3.3)
c. Eliatics: Zeno's argument from dichotomy (Barnes, pp. 99-104)

Sept 9: Plato's Metaphysics I

Readings:

a. Plato's Middle Period (Handout): Symposium 209e-212a and Republic 596d-597e
b. Plato's Parmenides, 126a-132b
c. Stanford Enclyopedia of Philosophy: Plato's Parmenides (section 1 - 4.3)

Sept 11: Plato's Metaphysics II

a. Plato's Parmenides, 132b-137c
b. Stanford Enclyopedia of Philosophy: Plato's Parmenides (section 4.4 - 5.0)

Sept 16: Plato's Epistemology I

a. Theaetetus, 151e-160e: "Exposition of the Protagorean/Heraclitean View"
b. Theaetetus, 160e-168c: "Superficial objections"

Sept 18: Plato's Epistemology II

a. Theaetetus, 170a-172c: "Serious refutations of Protagoras "
b. Theaetetus, 172c-177c: "Interlude: Philosophers and Practical Men "
c. Theaetetus, 177c-179b: "Another serious refutation of Protagoras"
d. Allen Wood: "Relativism" (Sections 1-3)

Sept 23: Plato's Epistemology III

a. Theaetetus, 187a-201c: "Knowledge is True Judgment"
b. Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy: Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus (Section 7)

Sept 25: Plato's Epistemology IV

a. Theaetetus, 201c-210a: "Knowledge is True Judgment Accompanied by an 'Account'"
b. Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy: Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus (Section 8)

Sept 30: Plato's Ethics I

Gorgias, 447a-461b

Oct 2: Plato's Ethics II

Gorgias, 461b-481b

Oct 7: Plato's Ethics III

Gorgias, 481b-506c

Oct 9: Plato's Ethics IV

Gorgias, 506d-527e

Oct 14: First Examination