Reading Schedule for Introduction to Philosophy

More detailed reading assignments and schedule revisions will be given in class and posted on the web.

August 23……Descartes, First and Second Meditations

August 28, 30, September 4……Descartes, Third and Fourth Meditations

September  6….. Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, "Prologue"

September 11 ….. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book 1, Chapters 1, 15, 2, 3, 4

September 13.......Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book 1, Chapters 5, 12, 19, 21, 22

September 18, …..Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book 2, Chapters 3, 5, 15

September 20....Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book 2, Chapters 19, 20, 22 and Book 3, Chapter 2......Journals are due this week for a preliminary review.

September 25….. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book 3, Chapters 11, 12, 13, 15, 16

September 27.......Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Book 4, Chapters 2, 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20.......Study guide distributed
 

October 2......Final Discussion of Nietzsche
 

October 4….Exam on Descartes and Nietzsche

October  9, 11….. Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, "Estranged Labor"

October 16.......Journals are due this week for a second review.

October 16, 18, 23….. Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, "The Meaning of Human Requirements", "Private Property and Communism"........Instructor's summary of the theory of alienation

October 23…..Part 1 on Feuerbach from Marx's The German Ideology, available on the web.......Instructor's summary of the theory of ideology

October 25......Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, Chapters 1 and 2

October 30.......Freud, Chapters 3, 4, and 5

November 1.....Freud, Chapters 6, 7 and  8

November 6.....Final Discussion of Marx and Freud
 

November 8……Exam on Marx and Freud
 

November 13......Special International Education Week Event
 

November 15...... Freire’s Pedagogy of Freedom, Chapter 1 and 2
 

November 20, 27..... Freire, Chapters 3 and 4

November 29, December 4, 6…..West's Democracy Matters, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 6 (You can receive extra participation credit by reading and writing about 4, 5, or 7)
 

December 11…..Last exam….Journal due