Fall 2009

 

 

AUGUST

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

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Course Requirements and Grading

 

Policies

 

Metaphysics

Background and Writing

 

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

 

Metaphysics and the Human Condition Essay

 

 

27

28

 

Discussion

 

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

 

Class Notes

 

31

Background

Heraclitus

The Eleatics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

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Friday

 

 

 

1

2

Readings and Writing

Empedocles: The Cosmic Cycle

 

 

3

4

 

Discussion

Criticality

Cycles in Society

7

 

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

 

Dialectics

 

 

 

 

8

9

The Sophists

 

 

10

11

 

 

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

 

14

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

Homework

Basic Principles of Limits

 

 

 

15

16

Human Sociality

Humans are best adapted to band life.

 

Homework

 

Class Notes

 

 

17

18

 

 

Euripides - The Bacchae

 

About Euripides

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Structure

 

21

Euripides - The Bacchae

 

About Euripides

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Structure

 

 

22

23

Euripides - The Bacchae

 

About Euripides

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Class Notes

Euripides - The Bacchae Structure

24

25

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Thucydides - Pericles' Funeral Oration

Patriotism

Groupthink

Thucydides - The Silician Expedition

The Mania of the Nineties

28

No Class

 

29

30

Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

Adaptive Strategies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCTOBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

 

 

1

2

Panarchy
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

Homework 1

Class Notes

 

 

 

5

Panarchy
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

 

Homework 2

 

 

 

6

7

Panarchy
The password for the electronic reserve is modphil.

 

8

9

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Homework Demeter\Persephone Characters

Class Notes

 

12

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Notes

 

13

14

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

 

15

16

 

Chapter XI The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XII The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XVI The Odyssey

19

 

Chapter XXI The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XXIII The Odyssey

 

 

Chapter XXIV The Odyssey

 

 

20

21

 

Homework

Outline of the Iliad

 

Iliad 1

 

Iliad 9

 

Class Notes

 

22

23

 

 

Iliad 16

 

Iliad 18

 

Class Notes

 

26

 

Iliad 22

 

Iliad 24

 

Homework

Characters of the Iliad

 

 

 

27

28

Sophocles Oedipus

About Sophocles

Sophocles Oedipus Structure

Sophocles Oedipus Class Notes

29

30

 

Sophocles Oedipus

Sophocles Oedipus Class Notes 2

 

 

NOVEMBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

2

Sophocles Oedipus

Sophocles Oedipus Class Notes

 

 

3

4

Sophocles Oedipus

 

5

6

 

Sophocles Oedipus

9

 

 

Dark Age Theory

 

Dark Ages

 

The Greek Dark Ages

 

Peak Wood

 

Peak Oil

 

 

10

11

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

Cephalus

The Euthyphro Dilemma

Cephalus

 

12

13

 

Polemarchus

Polemarchus

 

16

 

Thrasymachus

 

Thrasymachus

 

17

18

 

Thrasymachus

 

Thrasymachus

 

 

19

20

The Contract Theory of Justice

 

23

No Class

24

25

No Class

 

 

26

27

No Class

30

 

The Three Cities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DECEMBER

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

1

2

Primary Education

 

3

4

 

The Four Virtues in the State

 

The Four Virtues in the Individual

 

Application of Justice

 

7

 

The Allegory of the Sun

 

The Allegory of the Cave

 

8

9

 

The Degenerate Cities

 

 

The Tyrant

10

 

 

 

11

 

The Comparison of the Just and Unjust Lives

 

Last Day of Class

 

 

 

 

14

Finals

 

 

 

 

15

16

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