Date/Week | Distance Web Site Unit and Sections | Reading
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| Jan. 9
------1---- | Introduction: Unit : 1 (Overview, Background, Commentary, and Activity) | |
| Jan. 11 |
Unit 2: Las Casas (Background, Commentary and Activity) | Packet Part 1 |
| Jan. 16 ---2-- | Unit 3:
Montaigne (Background) | Montaigne
"Apology for Raymond Sebond" in packet |
| Jan. 18 | Unit 3: Montaigne: (Commentary and Activity) | Reread the selection from the "Apology for Raymond
Sebond" |
| Jan. 23 ---3--- | Unit 4:
Descartes 1: Tearing Down the Old House (Presentation, Background,
Commentary and
Activity)
--Choice of Research Area-- | Med. IThe
Rationalists Pp. 31--50 |
| Jan. 25 | Unit 5: Descartes 2: The Foundation (Background, Commentary and Activity) | Med. II-III up to Pg. 15 |
| Jan. 30 ---4--- | Unit 6: Rebuilding the House (Background, Commentary and Activity) | Med. V-VI |
| Feb. 1 | Unit 7: Spinoza, Substance and God (Backgound, Commentary and
Activity)
--Midterm Study Questions | "Appendix to Book I of the Ethics
in packet |
| Feb. 6 ----5--- | Unit 8:
Locke: Science, Morality and Knowledge | Essay Book
II. Chapters 1--13, 22--23 (Pp. 6--40 and 52--62, in The
Empiricists |
| Feb. 8 |
MIDTERM | |
| Feb. 13 ---6--- | Unit 8:
Locke: Science, Morality and Knowledge |
Essay Book IV Chapters 1--9 (Pp. 75--113 |
| Feb. 15 | Unit 8: Lock 1: Science, Morality and Religion | Essay Book II Chapter 21 (Pp. 40--52) |
| Feb. 20 ---7--- | Unit 9:
Lock 2: Locke on civil government | Sec.
Treatise Chap. 1--5 |
| Feb. 22 | Unit 9: Lock 2: Locke on property
--Draft of Paper
Due-- | Sec. Treatise Chap. 6--99 |
| Feb. 27 ---8--- | Locke 2: Locke on revolution | Sec.
Treatise Chap. 16--19 |
| Mar. 1 | Locke 3: Locke and Race | Equiano's
Travels to Pg. 146; packet Part II: Popkin to the end |
| Mar. 6 ---9--- | Unit 11:
Berkeley and Qualities | Berk. pp.
217-234 |
| Mar. 8 | Berkeley and immaterialism | Berk. pp. 234-252 |
| Mar. 13 ---10--- | Unit 12: Hume on ideas, causation and
induction
--Study Questions for Final-- | Enquiry 1--4, and 7. |
| Mar. 15 | Unit 12: Hume on the problem of induction
--Research
Paper Due-- | Enquiry 4--5 |