Phi 100 - Fall 2025

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Syllabus (Updated 8/25/25)

Quizes:

• Quiz 1

• Quiz 2

• Quiz 3

Readings:

Classical Thought; 

Plato: (Benjamin Jowett, 1871 translation)

1. Republic, Book II: The Ring of Gyges – 

2. Republic, Book VI: The Philosopher-King –

3. Republic, Book VII: Allegory of the Cave –

4. Apology: Defense Speech excerpt – 

Aristotle: (Translations needed )

1. Physics, Book 2, parts 1-3

2. Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

3. Politics, Book 4 section 1-5

Late Classical Thought/Stoics

• Epicurus – Letter to Menoeceus  (Hicks, 1925 (Loeb Classical Library, PD)

• Epictetus – Enchiridion Handbook  (Thomas W. Higginson, 1865)

• Marcus Aurelius – Meditations (Books II, Book IV)  (George Long, 1862)

• Bonus Jerry Seinfeld Clip here

Medieval Thought

• Anselm – Proslogion (Ch. 2–4 + Gaunilo’s reply) (Sidney Norton Deane, 1903)

Enlightenment Thought

• René Descartes – Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditations I, II,  III)  (John Veitch, 1901 (rev. ed.)

Modern Thought

Immanuel Kant –Dissertation On the Form and Principles of the Sensible and Intelligible World, (Section II, paragraphs 3-5 & 8-9)