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Thursday, September 24
- : (no reading, first class).
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Tuesday, September 29
- : Diogenes Laertius, “Prologue,” “Thales,” and
“Anaxagoras,”reading (PDF) from Lives of Eminent Philosophers.
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Thursday, October 1
- : Plato, Ion.
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Tuesday, October 6
- : 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.
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Thursday, October 8
- : Aristophanes, Clouds (from Four Texts on Socrates),
lines 1–813. Short assignment 2 due.
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Tuesday, October 13
- : Aristophanes, Clouds, lines 814–end. Short assignment
3 due.
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Thursday, October 15
- : Plato, Apology (from Four Texts on Socrates),
17a–24b. Short assignment 4 due.
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Tuesday, October 20
- : Plato, Apology, 24b–35d.
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Thursday, October 22
- : Plato, Apology, 35d–end. Short assignment 5 due.
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Tuesday, October 27
- : Plato, Meno, 70a–80b. Short assignment 6 due.
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Thursday, October 29
- : Plato, Meno, 80b–89c. Short assignment 7 due.
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Tuesday, November 3
- : Plato, Meno, 89c–96d. Short assignment 8 due.
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Thursday, November 5
- : Plato, Meno, 96d–end; Gorgias, 515a–522c.
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Tuesday, November 10
- : Plato, Euthydemus, 271a–282e. Short assignment 9
due.
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Thursday, November 12
- : Plato, Euthydemus, 283a–293a, through the end of
Socrates’ first speech (“…the rest of our lives beautifully”).
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Tuesday, November 17
- : Plato, Euthydemus, 293a–end. Short assignment 10
due.
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Thursday, November 19
- : Plato, Charmides, 163e–175d.
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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.
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Thursday, November 26
- : Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1.5, 1.8, 4.5, 4.7;
10.6–8.
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Tuesday, December 1
- : Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 6.3–7, 6.12–13;
Metaphysics, 1.1–2, 4.1–2.
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Thursday, December 3
- : Diogenes Laertius, “Diogenes,” from Lives of
Eminent Philosophers.
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Wednesday, December 9
- : final assignment due.
