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Spinoza

Class will not be held on December 10, and the schedule of readings has been adjusted accordingly.
The second paper topic is due Wednesday, December 3, in class.
The assignment for Parts III and IV of the Ethics was narrowed to the parenthesized items.
The assignment for the Arnauld correspondence was narrowed to the first letter.

This is a listing of class reading assignments. Readings with links may be found on line.

Month	Day	Topic	Reading
October	6	Introductory Remarks
	8	Spinoza and Descartes	The Principles of Descartes’ Philosophy, Part One
	13	Spinoza’s Early Epistemology	Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
	15	Spinoza’s Ontology	Ethics, Part I
	20	Spinoza’s Ontology	Ethics, Part I
	22	Spinoza’s Ontology	Ethics, Part I
	27	Spinoza’s Philosophy of Mind	Ethics, Part II
	29	Spinoza’s Philosophy of Mind	Ethics, Part II
November	3	Spinoza’s Theory of the Emotions	Ethics, Part III (Definition of the Emotions) and IV (Appendix)
	5	Spinoza’s Theory of Human Freedom	Ethics, Part V
	10	Leibniz on Descartes and Spinoza	Comments on Spinoza’s Philosophy
	12	Leibniz’s Logic	Preface to a Universal Characteristic, Samples of the Numerical Characteristic
	17	Leibniz’s Early Epistemology	Meditations on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas, Primary Truths
	19	Necessity and Contingency	On Contingency, Discourse on Metaphysics, Section 13, On the Ultimate Origination of Things
	24	Human and Divine Freedom	Correspondence with Arnauld (first letter), Dialogue on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil
	26	The Metaphysics of Substance	Discourse on Metaphysics
December	1	Monads	Monadology
	3	Theodicy	Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason
	8	Dispute with Samuel Clarke	From the letters to Clarke
	10	No class
	19	FINAL EXAMINATION	6:00-8:00 P.M.