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University of California, Davis
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- The Second Paper Topic has been assigned.
This list shows which material has been covered in each class period.
| Month | Day | Topic | |
| April | 4 | Introductory Remarks (through “Non-Philosophical Defenses”) | |
| 6 | Conclusion of Introductory Remarks, Plato’s Euthyphro (Through Objections to the Final Attempt |
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| 11 | Conclusion of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Republic (through “Plato’s Republic”) | ||
| 13 | Conclusion of Republic, Nicomachean Ethics (through “Pleasure and Pain”) | ||
| 18 | Conclusion of Nichomachean Ethics, Hobbes’s Leviathan (through “Laws of Nature”) | ||
| 18 | Conclusion of Leviathan (through “Laws of Nature”), Kant’s Metaphysic of Morals (through An Example) |
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| 25 | Kant’s Metaphysic of Morals (through Rational Man and Natural Man) |
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| 27 | conclusion of Kant’s Metaphysic of Morals, Mill’s Utilitarianism (through General Happiness as a Good) |
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| May | 2 | Conclusion of Utilitarianism, Sartre’s “The Humanism of Existentialism” | |
| 4 | Plato’s Phaedo (through “ ‘The Third Man’ ”) | ||
| 9 | Conclusion of Plato’s Phaedo, Aristotle and Aquinas (through Teleology and Necessity |
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| 11 | Aristotle and Aquinas (through Limitations of the Arguments |
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| 16 | Conclusion of Aristotle and Aquinas, Anselm’s Proslogion (through Criticisms of Thesis M |
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| 18 | Conclusion of Anselm’s Proslogion, Descartes’s Meditations(through Understanding vs. Sense and Imagination) |
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| 23 | Descartes’s Meditations (through Mind and Body) |
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| 25 | Conclusion of Descartes’s Meditations, Hume’s Enquiry (through Evidence for Matters of Fact |
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| 30 | Hume’s Enquiry (through Humean Compatibilism |
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| June | 1 | Conclusion of Hume’s Enquiry, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (through) Two Intrepretations of Kant |
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| 6 | Conclusion of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason |