FALL 2008

 

 

AUGUST

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Friday

 

 

 

 

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Course Requirements and Grading

 

Policies

 

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

 

Class Notes

 

28

29

 

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

 

Criticality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

 

Empedocles: The Cosmic Cycle

Readings and Homework

Cycles in Society

 

2

 

3

Heraclitus

The Eleatics

 

 

 

 

4

5

 

 

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

 

Dialectics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

The Sophists

 

 

 

9

10

 

Sorokin 1 Chapter 38 Principle of Immanent Change
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

Homework

Sorokin 1 Basic Principles

Class Notes

 

Power Law

 

 

11

12

 

 

Sorokin 2 Chapters 39 The Principle of Limit
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

Homework

Basic Principles of Limits

 

15

 

 

Human Sociality

Humans are best adapted to band life.

 

Homework

 

Class Notes

 

 

 

16

17

 

 

Euripides - The Bacchae

 

About Euripides

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Structure

 

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Euripides - The Bacchae

 

About Euripides

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Structure

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Euripides - The Bacchae

 

About Euripides

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Structure

 

 

23

24

 

 

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Thucydides - Pericles' Funeral Oration

Patriotism

Groupthink

Thucydides - The Silician Expedition

The Mania of the Nineties

 

25

26

 

 

 

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

Adaptive Strategies

 

 

29

 

 

Panarchy
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

Homework 1

Class Notes

 

 

30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCTOBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

 

1

 

 

Panarchy
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

 

Homework 2

 

 

2

3

 

 

Panarchy
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

 

6

 

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Homework Demeter\Persephone Characters

Class Notes

 

7

8

 

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Notes

9

10

No Class

13

 

Outline of the Odyssey

Chapter I The Odyssey

Homework for Chapter I

Relationships

Chapter IX The Odyssey

Chapter X The Odyssey

Homework Chapter X

Characters of the Odyssey

 

 

14

15

 

 

 

Chapter XI The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XII The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XVI The Odyssey

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

Chapter XXI The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XXIII The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XXIV The Odyssey

20

 

Homework

Outline of the Iliad

 

Iliad 1

 

Iliad 9

 

Class Notes

 

21

22

 

 

Iliad 16

 

Iliad 18

 

Class Notes

23

24

 

 

 

Iliad 22

 

Iliad 24

 

Homework

Characters of the Iliad

 

27

 

Sophocles Oedipus

About Sophocles

Sophocles Oedipus Structure

Sophocles Oedipus Class Notes

 

 

 

28

29

 

Sophocles Oedipus

Sophocles Oedipus Class Notes 2

 

30

31

 

Sophocles Oedipus

Sophocles Oedipus Class Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

3

 

Sophocles Oedipus

 

4

5

 

Sophocles Oedipus

 

6

7

 

 

Dark Age Theory

 

 

Dark Ages

 

The Greek Dark Ages

 

Peak Wood

 

Peak Oil

 

10

 

OutlinePlato's The Republic Tradition, Social Position, and Power

Cephalus

The Euthyphro Dilemma

Cephalus

 

 

11

12

 

 

Polemarchus

Polemarchus

 

13

14

 

 

 

 

Thrasymachus

 

Thrasymachus

17

 

Thrasymachus

 

Thrasymachus

 

 

 

 

18

19

 

The Contract Theory of Justice

20

21

 

The Three Cities

24

No Class

25

26

No Class

27

28

No Class

 

 

Primary Education

 

 

 

The Four Virtues in the State

 

 

 

The Four Virtues in the Individual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DECEMBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

 

Application of Justice

 

2

3

 

The Allegory of the Sun

4

5

 

The Allegory of the Cave

8

 

The Degenerate Cities

 

9

10

 

The Tyrant

11

 

 

12

The Comparison of the Just and Unjust Lives

 

Last Day of Class

15

Final

2-4:30

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