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Syllabus & Addendum
Guide on Reading Philosophy
Essay Topic and Rubric
FOR YOUR FINAL EXAM REVIEW SHEET, I ADDED CONTENT THAT OUR CLASS DID NOT COVER. PLEASE OMIT ANY REFERENCE TO DRUGS, WAR, AND HOMOSEXUALITY, INCLUDING TERMS AND ESSAY QUESTIONS.
Schedule
| Date | Topic | Work Due |
| 1/27 | Introduction to Course and Each Other | |
| How To Do & Read Philosophy: Introduction to Elementary Logic | ||
| 2/1 | Philosophical Tools How To construct and Evaluate Arguments | |
| 2/3 | Cont’d (ARGUMENT NOTES) OMIT PATTERN SLIDES | |
| 2/8 | What are the basic Fallacies that create illogic reasoning? NOTES | Log 1 (Exercise Section) questions 1-6 |
| 2/10 | Cont’d NOTES | |
| 2/15 | EXAM ONE: LOGIC | EXAM ONE |
| Ethical Theories and the Public Sphere | ||
| 2/17 | Doing the Right thing (Sandel) | Confused Q |
| 2/22 | What Utilitarianism Is (John Stuart Mill) | Confused Q |
| 2/24 | Utilitarianism (Sandel) | LOG 2 |
| 2/29 | On liberty (John Stuart Mill) | Confused Q |
| 3/2 | Grounding for metaphysics of morals (Kant) (1-13req) (24-29opt) | Confused Q |
| 3/7 | Kantian Ethics (Sandel) | LOG 3 |
| 3/9 | Dilemmas’ of Loyalties (Sandel) | Confused Q |
| 3/14 | Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism (pages 1-7) Martha Nussbaum | LOG 4 |
| Governance, Equality, & Rights | ||
| 3/16 | Aristotle and Politics, (Sandel) | Confused Q |
| 3/21 | Cont’d | |
| 3/23 | EXAM. Review Sheet | EXAM TWO |
| 3/28 | Discourse on Equality: Part Two (Rousseau) | Confused Q |
| 3/30 | Nihilism in America (West) | Confused Q |
| 4/4 | Racialization of Prisons (Davis) | LOG 5 |
| 4/6-15 | SPRING BREAK NO CLASSES | |
| 4/18 | In Class Essay Workshop | Essay Distribution Writing Workshop |
| 4/20 | Plato and Personhood (Hall) | Confused Q |
| 4/25 | Crito (Plato) | Confused Q |
| 4/27 | Letter From a Birmingham Jail (King) The Ballot or the Bullet (Malcolm X) | Confused Q |
| 5/2 | Justice As Fairness (Rawls) pages 1-22 | Confused Q |
| 5/4 | Rawls and Occupy Wall Street (Cohen, Rinsler, & Mazie) Cohen & Rinsler Mazie |
Confused Q |
| 5/9 | The Case For Equality: John Rawls (Sandel) | Confused Q |
| 5/11 | Exam Three (Review) | EXAM THREE |
| 5/18-23 | Exam Week | ESSAY DUE |