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Week
One
1/16-1/18
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Course Introduction
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Tuesday
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Introduction to Class. A discussion of the main
concepts and themes that we will explore in our examination of the
material for this course. There will also be a brief overview of Western
history and culture before 1400.
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Thursday
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A)
The Western European Debt to the Islamic World
B) The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
C) The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance
Viewing: Islam: Empire of Faith, Part 3
Readings:
Text, Chapter 11
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Week
Two 1/23-1/25
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The Renaissance: 1400-1560
A (new) Vision of Humanity
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Tuesday
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A)
The Socio-Political Configuration of Europe in the 15th
& 16th
Century –Nation States and Discovery
B) The
Intellectual Movements of the Early Renaissance –Humanism, History and
the revival of Platonism.
C) The Art of the
Italian Renaissance..
Readings:
Text, Chapter 12
1st ARP due
(Links for "The School of Athens" are included).
Alberti's
Notebooks
Art
History Resources on the Web
Web Gallery of Art
Art Cyclopedia
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Thursday
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Readings:
Text, Chapter 13 on the Northern Renaissance
Readings:
More, selections from Utopia
(Reader 27-30)
Machiavelli, selections from
The
Prince ( Chapters 8, 14-19, 21 and 25 available on the web.)
Notes on Machiavelli
Notes on More
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Week
Three 1/30-2/1
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Europe in the Larger World and a New Foundation for Philosophy
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Tuesday
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Events in Spain
and the Western Hemisphere
A) The Reconquista and the Expulsion of the Muslims and the Jews
B) Genocide in the Americas
C) The Debate in Spain
D) Spanish literature
Readings:
Selections from Bartolome de Las Casas, Juan Gines de Sepulveda,and
Francisco de Vitoria (photocopies from instructors)
Readings:
"Account of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, 1492" and
extracts from the journal of Christopher Columbus (Coursepack)
Readings:
Cervantes (Reader 92-96)
Second ARP due
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Thursday
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Descartes
and the Foundations of Modern Philosophy
Readings:
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, 1-3
Study
Guide for the First Exam distributed
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Week
Four 2/6-2/8
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Descartes: A New Foundation for Philosophy
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Tuesday
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Descartes Continued
Readings: Meditations, 4-6
Third
ARP on Descartes due
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Thursday
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Exam
1
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Introduction
to the Reformation
A)
The History
of the Reformation –Luther, Calvin, and the Splintering of the Universal
Church.
B) The
Counter-Reformation –The Jesuits and the Inquisition.
C) Late
Mannerism
Readings:
Text, remainder of Chapter 13, Martin Luther (Reader 89-92) and
"95 Theses" and
"On
Christian Liberty" (found at: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-luther.html)
More details about this assignment are found in the notes below.
Notes on the Reformation,
Luther, and Milton
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Week
Five 2/13-2/15
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The
Reformation
A
(new) Vision of Religion
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Tuesday
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The
Reformation in England
Readings:
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books 1 (all), Book 2 (1-625), Book 3
(1-415), Book 4 (1-113 and 288-535) and Book 5 (561-907)
Discussion
of Milton, Luther, Calvin, et. al. Primary emphasis on Milton.
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Thursday
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Milton
Continued
Readings: Paradise Lost, Book 9
(all)
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Introduction
to the Baroque
A) Absolute monarchies
B) Baroque art and architecture
C) Baroque music
Readings: Text,
Chapter 14 and Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz and Aphra Behn (Reader C14 )
Listening: Bach and Vivaldi
Baroque Art
from Art History Resources on the Web
Baroque
Art Site of Interest
Link
to Andrea Pozzo's Work
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Week
Six 2/20-2/22
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The Baroque Era (1600-1715)
A (new) Conception of Nature and the Development of
Liberalism
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Tuesday
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A
) How to organize
knowledge: breaking down barriers between disciplines and scholastic
authoritarianism.
B) The
Newtonian World –the nature as a machine.
C) Rationalism and
Empiricism: The Search for a Universal (Human) Science
Readings:
Text, Chapter 14 and Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (Coursepack)
5th
ARP on Hobbes due
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Thursday
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Continue
discussion of Hobbes' Leviathan in the Coursepack.
Additional Readings: Text, Chapter 15
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Week
Seven 2/27-3/1
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The
Enlightenment
A
(new) Conception of the Role of Reason
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Tuesday
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Readings:
Selections from Locke's Second Treatise on Government
Reading
Notes and Assignments for Locke
Notes
on Slavery and Reading Suggestions
Study Guide for the Second Exam
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Thursday
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6th
ARP due
on Locke due
Basic
Features of the Enlightenment.
A) The Power of
Reason –The Failure of Faith
B) Art in the
Enlightenment
C) Power Politics
Read:
Text, Chapter 16 “The Age of Reason”
Read: Selections from Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Coursepack)
and begin Hume’s
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Week
Eight 3/6-3/8
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The Enlightenment Continued
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Tuesday
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Attend Cultures Week events for extra credit to make up for absences
Read: all of Hume’s Dialogues
Concerning Natural Religion (available at the bookstore and on the
web)
Notes on Hume
7th ARP is due on Amazing Grace or
Hogarth is due on Thursday.
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Thursday
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Exam
2
Continue
discussion of Hume
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Spring Break ---Time to read Kant and Conrad! |
Week 9
3/19-3/23 |
Revolution?
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Tuesday |
1) Industrial Revolution
2) Political Revolution
3) Philosophical Revolution
Read: Kant's Perpetual Peace and Chapter 17, "Revolution, Reaction , and
Cultural Response"
8th ARP on Kant due
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Thursday |
Presentation by Mary Ellen Croteau
Continuation of the discussion of KantRead: the selections
from Goethe's Faust and Shelley's Frankenstein as well as
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and Keat's "Ode to a Grecian Urn" in the
Humanities Reader. |
Week 10
3/26-3/30 |
The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie
and
The Challenge of the Working Class |
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Monday |
Required Special Event:
Dr. Mardge Cohen, "Caring for Women with HIV: Global and Local
Chlalenges"
11:00 am in 1610.....Be sure to get proof of attendance.
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Tuesday |
Read: Chapter 18, "The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie"
9th ARP due
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Thursday |
Read:
"Estranged Labor" and
"The Meaning of Human Requirements" in
Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the
selections from Flaubert's Madame Bovary in the Reader
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Week 11
4/2-4/6 |
Capitalism and Imperialism: |
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Tuesday |
Marx continued plus the literature of the 19th century
Read:
"Private Property and Communism" from the 1844 Manuscripts and the
first two parts of
The Communist Manifesto. Also read Holly's summaries of
the theory of alienation and
the theory of ideology.
Finally, read the brief selections from Dickens, Douglass and
Thoreau in the Reader.10th ARP due
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Thursday |
Read: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Study Guide for the 3rd Exam
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Week 12
4/9-4/13 |
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Tuesday |
Conrad continued 11th ARP due
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Wednesday |
Special Required Event:
Great Books Symposium on Conrad
12:30 pm in 1610
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Thursday |
Exam # 3
Read: Chapter 19 of the Humanities Text and Chapters 1 and 2 of Mill's
The
Subjection of Women
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Week 13
4/16-4/20 |
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Tuesday |
Read: Finish The Subjection of Women
12th ARP due
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Wednesday |
Special Event:
Professor David Schweickart speaks on his book After Capitalism
2:00-3:15 pm in 1604
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Thursday |
Read: In Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, read the following
selections:
Prologue, Book One (Sections 1, 2, 3, 15, 19, 21, 22) |
Week 14
4/23-4/27 |
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Tuesday |
Continue Nietzsche....In Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
read the following selections: Book Two (Sections 3, 5, 19, 22), Book 3
(Sections 2, 13), Book 4 (Sections 2, 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 17, 18,
20).......Also read the selections from Dostoyevsky, Freud, and Kafka in
the Reader)
13th ARP on Nietzsche due
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Thursday |
Read: Chapter 20 and the first two chapters of Simone de Beauvoir's
The Ethics of
Ambiguity
Study Guide for the Fourth Exam
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Week 15
4/30-5/4 |
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Tuesday |
Finish
The Ethics of Ambiguity |
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Thursday |
4th Exam
Overview of Western Culture
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Friday |
Honors Banquet.....Be there! |
Week 16
5/8-5/12 |
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Tuesday |
Final Exam.......Portfolios due |
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Thursday |
Party! |