Wed, Aug 28 The Physicists [See Milesian Phyicists & bibliography]

Mon, Sept 2 Labor Day...No Class

Wed, Sept 4 Pythagoreans [See Pythagoreans]

Mon, Sept 9 Guide to using the Internet...Class meets in MRC [Visit Microcomputer Resource Center]

Wed, Sept 11 The Historical Context...Late Start at 4:30 [Visit The Perseus Project]

Mon, Sept 16 Heraclitus & Parmenides [See Heraclitus & Parmenides]

Wed, Sept 18 Eleatics (Zeno's Paradoxes) [SeeZeno's Paradoxes]

Mon, Sept 23 Pluralists & Atomists... Quiz (20 min.)

Wed.,Sept 25 Socrates & the Sophists Apology & Republic Bk 1 [See bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 41-56; 112-137)]

Mon, Sept 30 Plato on the Forms Meno & Phaedo---(Cahn, ed. pp. 4-27; 66-111)

Wed, Oct 2 Plato on Politics Crito & Republic Bks 2-5---(Cahn, ed. pp. 57-65; 138-202)

Mon, Oct 7 Plato's Metaphysics Republic Bks 6,7---(Cahn, ed. pp. 202-231)

Wed, Oct 9 Introduction to Aristotle Categories, Chs. 1-5; Physics, Bk 2---[See Introduction to Aristotle & Aristotle on Logic & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 235-255)]

Mon, Oct 14 In Class Exam

Wed, Oct 16 Aristotle of Physics & Psychology Physics, Bk 2; On the Soul, Bk 2
Aristotle on Scientific Explanations
(Cahn, ed. pp. 241-273)

Oct 21-25 Fall Break...No Class

Mon, Oct 28 Aristotle on Metaphysics [SeeAristotle's Metaphysics]

Wed, Oct 30 Aristotle on Ethics & Politics Nicomachean Ethics---(Cahn, ed. pp. 274-324)

Mon, Nov 4 Hellenistic Philosophy (1) [See Life Philosophies of Late Antiquity Epicurus & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 325-334)]

Wed, Nov 6 Hellenistic Philosophy (2) Epictetus---(Cahn, ed. pp. 335-354)

Mon, Nov 11 Make-up exam date: 1st Quiz and/or 1st Exam

Wed, Nov 13 Neo-Platonism & Early Christian Philosophy: Guest Lecturer: Dr. R. Goss [See Introduction to Medieval Philosophy & Neo-Platonists also bibliography]

Mon, Nov 18 Second Quiz

Wed, Nov 20 From Augustine to Scholasticism: Guest Lecturer: Dr. R. Goss [Confessions (Bk 11) & Augustine & bibliography
(Cahn, ed. pp. 355-374)

Mon, Nov 25 Boethius to Anselm [See Early Middle Ages & bibliography]

Wed, Nov 2710th & 11th Centuries: Anselm [SeeHigh Middle Ages Anselm & bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 375-406)]

Mon, Dec 2 12 & 13th centuries]

Wed, Dec 4 Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (Qs. 1,2)---[See bibliography (Cahn, ed. pp. 407-428)]

Mon, Dec 9 Looking back: an overview---[See Final Review]

Wed, Dec 11 Examination Make-up [See Exams]

Tues, Dec 17 Final Exam Nb Day & Time: Tuesday, 3:20-5:20pm [See Final Exam]

Revised December 10, 1996

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