Course code:
PHIL*1000-01
Course term:
Fall 2014
Details:
An Introduction to philosophical questions and ways of dealing with them. Our primary reading will be Plato's Republic but we will also discuss David Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understnading, and Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism"
Course Requirements/evaluation: Two 1500 word essays (25% each) and a final exam (50%)
Required Texts:
Plato, Republic (Griffith trnaslation, Cambridge ISBN 0-521-48443-x).
David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hackett 0-87220-229-1).
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" (Courselink)