Term: Fall 2010 (2010-1) (September 7 - December 18)

Course Number: PHIL 200A Great Philosophical Idea= s

Instructor: Dr. Edward C. Stibili

Office: 523

Office Phone: 219-473-4284

E-mail: estibili@ccsj.edu

Office Hours: MW 3:30 -5:00 PM and by appointmen= t

Course Time: MW 12:00-1:30 PM, Room 263

Course Description: This course is both an historical treatment of philosophers and an analysis of their original literature. Students will study ancient through modern philosophers and will analyze major philosophical issues.

Prerequisites: ENG 103, 104

Learning Outcomes/Competencies: Students in this course will:

1. Review the history of philosophy f= rom ancient to contemporary times.

2. Become familiar with the lives, writings, and ideas of major Western philosophers.

Textbook: Albert B. Hakim. Historical Introduction to Phil= osophy. Fifth ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2006.

Learning Strategies: This course will be based on class= room lectures and discussions. The textbook will reinforce lecture presentations and provide readings from var= ious philosophers. Visual aids wil= l be used as appropriate.

Assessment:

1. Class attendance and participation= : 20% of grade

2. 4 unit examinations: 20% each for a total of 80% of gra= de

        &= nbsp;   Extra points: Optional question= s will be built into the four unit examinations.&= nbsp; Optional questions can be used only by students who take the unit examinations at the scheduled times. Before each unit examination, students will be given essay questions= for the unit examination to use as a study guide. The essay questions in the unit examination will come from this set of questions.

Class Policy for Assignments: Students should stay current with = the selected textbook readings assigned in the course outline. Students who do not take the unit examinations at the scheduled times must make them up within one week of the scheduled times.

Grading Scale:

A: 96-100; A-: 91-95; B+: 87-90; B: 84-86; B-: 81-83; C+: 77-80; C: 74-76; C-: 71-73; D+: 67-70; D: 64-66; D-: 61-63; F: 60 and below.

Class Policy on Attendance: Students will lose one point for e= ach missed class, unless absent for personal and documented medical reasons or College-scheduled activit= y. Excused absences will be limited to three class hours during the semester.

Class Policy on Electronic Devices: Students must turn off all electro= nic devices during class time. Computers and recorders are allowed if used for class purposes.

Course Outline: Class Dates, Topics, and Assignmen= ts:

Part One: The Ancient Period, textbook, pp. = 1-148

Wednesday September 8:      Introduction, textbook, pp. 1-9

Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 13:       Ch. 1= , The Predecessors of Socrates (ca. 600 - ca. 400 B.C.), textbook, pp. 11-19; = Readings, pp. 19-29 (Selected Fragments from the Pre-Socratics).

Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 15:       Ch. 2, Socrates (469-399 B.C.), textbook, pp. 30-33; Readings, pp. 50-52 (T= he Death of Socrates)

Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 20:       Ch. 3, Plato (427-347 B.C.), textbook, pp. 54-60; Readings, pp. 65-67 (Knowledge: The Allegory of t= he Cave)

Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 22:       Ch. 4, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), textbook, pp. 87-98; Readings, pp. 98-101 (Toward a Definition of Wisdom)

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Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 29:       Chs. = 5-6, Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) and the Stoics (50-180 A.D.), textbook, pp. 122-125= and 133-140

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Monday    October      4:        Unit examination

Part Two: The Medieval Period, textbook, pp. 149-234

Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 6:       = ; Introduction, textbook, pp. 149-152

        &= nbsp;           &nbs= p;            &= nbsp; Ch. 7, St. Augustine (354-430), textbook, pp. 153-160; Readings, pp. 160= -161 (Augustine’s Conversion)

Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 11:       Ch. 8= , St. Anselm (1033-1109), textbook, pp. 181-184; Readings, pp. 186-187 (The “Ontological Argument” for the Existence of God)

Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 13:       Ch. 9= , St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), textbook, pp. 189-197; Readings, pp. 215= -216 (Love and Happiness)

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Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 20:       Ch. 1= 0, William of Ockham (1280-1349), textbook, pp. 221-230; Readings, pp. 230-231 (On the Problem of Universals)

Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 25:       Unit examination

Part Three: The Modern Period, textbook, pp. 2= 35-448

Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 27:       Intro= duction, textbook, pp. 235-239

        &= nbsp;           &nbs= p;            &= nbsp; The Rationalists: René Descartes (1596-1650), textbook, ch. 11, pp. 241-247, Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), textbook, ch. 12, pp. 270-274, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), textbook, ch. 13, pp. 283-288,and Ch. 16, George Berkeley (1685-1753= ), textbook, ch. 16, pp. 353-357; Readings, pp. 247-250 (Discourse on Method)

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Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 3:       = ; Ch. 14, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), textbook, pp. 298-304

Monday November    8:       = ; The Empiricists: John Locke (1632-1704), textbook, ch. 15, pp. 318-327, David Hume (1711-1776), textbook, ch.17, pp. 365-370, and John Stu= art Mill (1806-1873), textbook, ch. 20, pp. 428-434; Readings, pp. 347-3= 48 (Chapter II. Of the State of Nature) and pp. 379-382 (The Advantages of Scepticism)

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Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 15:       Ch. 1= 8, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), textbook, pp. 391-396; Readings, p. 397 (I. Of the Difference Between= Pure and Empirical Knowledge)

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Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 17:       Ch. 1= 9, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), textbook, pp. 415-419

Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 22:       Unit examination

Part Four: The Contemporary Period, textbook,= pp. 449-608

Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 24:       Intro= duction, textbook, pp. 449-452

        &= nbsp;           &nbs= p;            &= nbsp; Ch. 21, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), textbook, pp. 453-458; Reading= s, pp. 458-461 (The Search for Personal Meaning)

Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 29:       Chs. = 22-23, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-477) and Karl Marx (1816-1883), textbook, pp. 472= -477 and 486-490; Readings, pp. 490-495 (A Chapter in the Exploitation of= the Working Man)

Wednesday December 1:       Chs. 24-27, Henri Bergson (1859-1941), William James (1842-1910), Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), and Mar= tin Heidegger (1889-1976), textbook, pp. 501-505, 515-519, 535-540, 547-553

Monday        &= nbsp; “        &= nbsp; 6:       = ; Ch. 28, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), textbook, pp. 564-569; Readings, p= p. 569-573 (The Meaning of Existentialism)

Wednesday     “        &= nbsp; 8:=        Chs. 29-30, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), textbook, pp. 581-585 and 591-598; Readings, pp. 603-605 (Beyond the Limits of Language)

Unit examination: TBA

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