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Philosophy 001: Introduction To Philosophy: Professor
Philosophy 001: Introduction To Philosophy: Professor
Required Texts:
Plato, Five Dialogues (Hackett)
Ren Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse
on Method (Hackett)
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
(Cambridge)
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (Hackett)
[The assigned sections of David Humes An Enquiry Concerning
Human Understanding will be posted to iLearn.]
Course Website: https://ilearn.ucr.edu. The syllabus and other
materials and announcements will be posted to this site. I will be
posting my powerpoint presentations after class. You are also
expected to take notes during class.
Requirements
Lecture Attendance (10%)
Lecture attendance is required and will make up 10% of the final
grade. You have three free absences. After three absences your
attendance grade will drop by 30% for each absence (even in the
case of emergencies). We will be using clickers in class. I will be
asking review questions at the beginning and at the end of class to
be used to document your presence in class. You have to be
answer the questions at the beginning and at the end of class in
order to count as present in class that day. If you have a legitimate
reason to leave early or arrive late, let your TA know.
If you forget your clocker or your clicker runs out of batteries (or
otherwise fails to function), then at the end of class hand your TA a
sheet of paper that includes the answers to the clicker questions,
your name, sections, and the date. This will be allowed two times.
After that, if your forget your clocker, or if you clicker runs out of
batteries (or otherwise fails to function), you will be market as
absent for the day.
Section Attendance and Participation (10%)
94 100
90 93
87 89
84 86
80 83
77 79
74 76
70 73
67 69
64 66
60 63
under 60
Requirements. You must submit the required paper and take the
midterm and final in order to pass the course. If you fail to
submit any of the written work, you will fail the course,
regardless of your average grade for the other assignments.
You will not be able to take the exams on any other day than on
the days scheduled (October 27 and December 3) except in
cases of a documented medical emergency. Keep in mind the
late penalty for papers.
Schedule
9.24 Introduction
9.29 Plato, Euthyphro (pp. 2 20)
10.1 Plato, Apology (pp. 22 44)
10.6 Plato, Phaedo (pp. 94 132)
10.8 Plato, Phaedo (pp. 133 154)
10.13 Descartes, Meditations I & II (pp. 59 69)
10.15 Descartes, Meditations III (pp. 69 81)
10.20 Descartes, Meditations IV & V (pp. 81 92)
10.22 Descartes, Meditations VI (pp. 92 103)
10.27 MIDTERM
10.29 Hume, Sections IV & V of An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding (pp. 15 37)
11.3 Kant, Groundwork, Preface (pp. 1 6)
11.5 Kant, Groundwork, Section I (pp. 7 18)
11.10 Kant, Groundwork, Section II (pp. 19 46)
11.12 Kant, Groundwork, Section II & III (pp. 47 66)
PAPER DUE
11.17 Nietzsche, Genealogy, Preface (1 8) & First Essay (1
4, 10 14)
11.19 Nietzsche, Genealogy, Second Essay (1, 2, 4 8, 10, 12,
16)
11.24 Nietzsche, Genealogy, Third Essay (1, 7, 9 15, 23, 24,
27, 28)