Readings
- Thursday, September 24
- : (no reading, first class).
- Tuesday, September 29
- : no class due to the second day of Sukkot.
- Thursday, October 1
- : Diogenes Laertius, “Prologue,” “Thales,” and “Anaxagoras,” from Lives of Eminent Philosophers.
- Tuesday, October 6
- : no class due to Simchat Torah.
- Thursday, October 8
- : Plato, Euthyphro (from Four Texts on Socrates: note that this is different from the Euthydemus, which we’ll be reading later); short assignment 1 due.
- Tuesday, October 13
- : Aristophanes, Clouds (from Four Texts on Socrates), lines 1–813; short assignment 2 due.
- Thursday, October 15
- : Aristophanes, Clouds, lines 814–end; short assignment 3 due.
- Tuesday, October 20
- : Plato, Apology (from Four Texts on Socrates), 17a–35d; short assignment 4 due.
- Thursday, October 22
- : Plato, Apology, 35d–end; short assignment 5 due.
- Tuesday, October 27
- : Plato, Meno, 70a–80b; short assignment 6 due.
- Thursday, October 29
- : Plato, Meno, 80b–89c; short assignment 7 due.
- Tuesday, November 3
- : Plato, Meno, 89c–96d; short assignment 8 due.
- Thursday, November 5
- : Plato, Meno, 96d–end; Gorgias, 515a–522c.
- Tuesday, November 10
- : Plato, Euthydemus, 271a–282e; short assignment 9 due.
- Thursday, November 12
- : Plato, Euthydemus, 283a–293a, through the end of Socrates’ first speech (“…the rest of our lives beautifully”).
- Tuesday, November 17
- : Plato, Euthydemus, 293a–end; short assignment 10 due.
- Thursday, November 19
- : Plato, Charmides, 163e–175d.
- Tuesday, November 24
- : Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1.1–4, 1.7, 1.13, 2.6–7; Politics, 1.1 and 1.13; short assignment 11 due.
- Thursday, November 26
- : No class (Thanksgiving)
- Tuesday, December 1
- : Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.5, 1.8, 4.5, 4.7; 10.6–8.
- Thursday, December 3
- : Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 6.3–7, 6.12–13; Metaphysics, 1.1–2, 4.1–2; (there will be no short assignment 12).
- Tuesday, December 8
- : final paper due.