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- The final examination will be held on Friday, December 19, 6:00-8:00 P.M.
This list shows which material has been covered in each class period.
- October 6: Introductory Remarks
- October 8: Principles of Descartes’s Philosophy, Part I, through
Axioms Taken from Descartes
- October 13: Principles of Descartes’s Philosophy, Part I, to conclusion; On the Emendation of the Intellect, through middle of
Of the Instruments of the Intellect
(marginal page 35 in the Shirley translation) - October 15: On the Emendation of the Intellect, to conclusion. Ethics, Part I, through Proposition 8.
- October 20: Ethics, Part I, Propositions 9-16.
- October 22: Ethics, Part I, Propositions 17 to conclusion.
- October 27: Ethics, Part II through Proposition 13.
- October 29: Ethics, Part II, Proposition 14 through Corollary to Proposition 49.
- November 3: Ethics, Part II to conclusion, Part III, Definitions of the Emotions, Part IV, Appendix, 1-7.
- November 5: Ethics, Part IV to conclusion, Part V.
- November 10:
Comments on Spinoza’s Philosophy.
- November 12:
Preface to a Numerical Characteristic,
Samples of the Numerical Characteristic.
- November 17:
Meditations on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas,
Primary Truths,
first half. - November 19:
Primary Truths,
to conclusion,On Contingency
- November 24:
Discourse on Metaphysics,
Section 13, Letter to Arnauld of May, 1686. - November 26:
Discourse on Metaphysics.
- December 1:
Monadology,
through Section 61. - December 3:
Mondaology,
to conclusion. - December 8: Clarke correspondence.