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Requirements and Grading Policies


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Instructor Contact Information


Plato's The Republic Socrates Visits the Piraeus

 

Class Notes

 

The Nature of Philosophy

 

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Identifying Arguments: Tutorial and Homework

 

Homework

Identifying Arguments 1 and 2


Additional Practice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

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Diagramming Arguments: Tutorial and Homework

 

Homework

Diagramming Arguments

 

1. Additional Practice 
2. Additional Practice
3. Additional Practice Answers

 

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Evaluating Logical Strength: Tutorial and Homework

 

Homework

Logical Strength

 

1. Evaluating Assumptions
2. Evaluating Assumptions
3. Evaluating Assumptions Answers

 

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Evaluating Fallacies: Tutorial and Homework

 

Homework

Fallacies


1. Additional Practice
2. Additional Practice
3. Additional Practice

 

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Fallacies Continued

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Exam 1

 

Results

 

Test 1

 

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Aquinas Class Notes on Aquinas

 

Critical Thinking Tools for Aquinas: Classification

 

Homework

 

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Critical Thinking Tools for Aquinas: Definition


Classification and Definition

Additional Practice

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Basic Metaphysics
Basic Metaphysics


Additional Practice on Basic Metaphysics

Who was Aquinas?

Aquinas Overview

Aquinas Questions 90

Aquinas Questions 91

Proof of God's Existence

Additional Practice on Law

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Human Existence
Aquinas Questions 92


Aquinas Questions 93


The Lion King

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Aquinas Question 94

Homework

 

Natural Law Overview

Natural Law and Current Ethical Issues

 

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The Lion King

 

Aquinas Questions 95

 
 Homework

 

Homework

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Aquinas Questions 96

 

Homework


Aquinas Questions 97

 

Homework

 

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Aquinas' Theory of Knowledge

 

The Metaphysics of Death and Resurrection

 

Study Guide for Aquinas


Additional Practice

 

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OCTOBER

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Class Notes on Hobbes

 

 

Critical Thinking Tools for Hobbes

 

The Random Universe


Equilibrium

Generalization

Homework

 

Additional Practice

 

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Critical Thinking Tools for Hobbes

 

Mill's Methods

 

Homework

 


Additional Practice

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Metaphysical

Materialism

Who was Hobbes?


The Mechanistic Matrix of Inquiry


Hobbes Overview


The Leviathan's Table of Contents

 
The Leviathan's Outline of Human Knowledge


Hobbes Chapter 1 On the Senses

 

Homework


Additional Practice on the Basic Principles of Mechanism

 

 

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Human Beings

Hobbes Chapter 6 On the Passions

Homework

 

Hobbes Chapter 10 Power

 

Homework

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No Class

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The State of Nature

Hobbes Chapter 13 The State of Nature

Homework

 

The Melian Dialogue Inequality of Power

Homework

 

The Prisoner's Dilemma

The Lord of the Flies

 

Homework 1

 

Homework 2

 

Homework 3

 

Homework 4

 

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The Social Contract

Hobbes Chapter 14

Homework

 

Hobbes Chapter 15

 

Homework

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Society, Law, and Basic Rights


Hobbes Chapter 17

 

Homework

Hobbes Chapter 21

 

Homework

Adam Smith's Mechanical Society

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Epistemology

Hume's Analysis of Causality

 

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Study Guide for Hobbes

Exam 2 on Aquinas and Hobbes

 

Results

 

Test 2

 

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Class Notes on the Mystics

 

Dialectical Logic

 

 

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Metaphysics

 

Who were the mystics?


Directive Systems


Metaphysics


The Matrix

 

The Matrix Homework 1


Additional Practice on Idealistic Metaphysics

 

 

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The Mystical Experience


Examples of the Mystical Experience


The Validity of Mysticism


The Mystical Journey


Additional Practice on the Mystical Journey

 

The Matrix Homework 2 Plot

 

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The Mystical Journey

Part 1


St. Bernard Part 1

 

St. Bernard 1 Homework

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER

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The Mystical Journey

Part 2

 


St. Bernard Part 2

 

St. Bernard 2 Homework

 

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Ethics and the Four Degrees of Love


St. Bernard Part 3

The Nature of Love

St. Bernard 3 Homework

 

Nonviolence

 

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The Metaphysics of Death


St. Bernard Part 4

 

St. Bernard 4 Homework

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The Degrees of Knowledge


Plato's Divided Line

 

Homework

 

Study Guide for Mystics

 

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Rousseau Class Notes on Rousseau

 

Tree


Who was Rousseau?

Rousseau Overview

Systems Overview
Self-Organizing Systems 1


Self-Organizing Systems 2

 

Critical Thinking Tools for Rousseau:
Explanation

 

Homework

 

 

 

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The Metaphysics of Self-Organizing Systems
 
Capra The Turning Point Critique of Mechanism

 

Homework
 

 

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Capra The Turning Point Evolution

 
 
Additional Practice

 

Homework

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Capra The Turning Point Evolution

 

Homework

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Humanity and the State of Nature
Rousseau Preface

 

Homework

 
Rousseau 101-104

 

Homework

 
Rousseau 104-113

 

Homework

 

 

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DECEMBER

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Humanity and the State of Nature
Rousseau 113-137

 

Homework


Rousseau 137-141

 

Homework

Jared Diamond,"Agriculture is the Worst Mistake in Human History"

 

 

 

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Humanity and the State of Civilization
Rousseau pp. 141-157

 

Homework


Rousseau pp. 157-172

 

Homework


Rousseau pp. 172-178

 

Homework


Rousseau pp. 178-181

 

Homework


Marx and Surplus Value

 

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Nonalienated Societies
The Social Contract

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Developmental Epistemology
Additional Practice

 
The Characters of Antz

 

Homework


The Philosophy of Antz 1

 

Homework

The Philosophy of Antz 2

 

Homework

 

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Philosophy and the Current Crisis

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Philosophy and the Current Crisis

 

 

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Final

8-10:30

 

 

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