| The materials marked with an asterisk (*) are supplements available on the CC website; but I suggest you buy the packet version from the Columbia Bookstore unless you are willing to print out all of them. (Either way, you will need to have them on paper in class). |
| Date |
Topic
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| Sept. 1 | Introduction and Organization |
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The Greek Ideal of Perfection
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| Sept. 10 | † Plato, Republic, Books 1-3 (entire) |
| Sept. 12 | Plato, Republic, Books 4-6 (entire) |
| Sept. 17 | Plato, Republic, Books 7-10 (entire, Book 10 to be skimmed) |
| Sept. 19 | No Class (Rosh Hashanah) |
| Sept. 21 | Friday Make-up Session: Plato cont�d First Paper Due |
| Sept. 24 | Plato, Symposium and Phaedrus, selections to be announced |
| Sept. 26 | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books 1-2 (entire); 3: 1-3; 5: 1-7; 6: 5-8; 12-13
(entire); 8: 9-12; 10: 6-9 |
| Oct. 1 | †Aristotle, Politics, Books 1 (entire); 2: 1-5; 3: 1-13; 4: 1-12; 7: 1; 8: 1 |
| Oct. 3 | Aristotle continued Second Paper Due |
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The Monotheistic Alternative
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| Oct. 8 | The Old Testament, Genesis 1: 1-9; 11: 31-13: 18; 15:1-18:33;
21:1-23:20 and Deuteronomy 1:1-45; 4:1-11:28; 15:1-19:21; 21:10-26:19; 27:11-28:68;
30:1-34:12 |
| Oct. 10 | The Old Testament, Isaiah, 1-39 and Daniel (entire) |
| Oct. 15 | The New Testament, Luke (entire) and Acts 1:1-7:60; 9:1-11:18; 13:1-15:35; 17:1-28:30 |
| Oct. 17 | The New Testament, Romans (entire) Third Paper Due |
| Oct. 22 | The Koran (in order) Suras 1, 114, 112, 68, 63, 56, 39, 26,
17, 12, 4, 3, 2 |
| Oct. 24 | Bible and Koran cont�d (one hour); Midterm (one hour) |
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Attempts at a Synthesis
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| Oct. 29 | Augustine, The City of God, Books 4: 1-4; 8: 1-12, 14 (entire); 19 (entire); and 29-30 (entire) |
| Oct. 31 | St. Thomas Aquinas, On Morality and Politics, pp. 14-29, 30-33, 37-9, 90-97, 100-105, 109, 71-3 |
| Nov. 5 | No Class -- University Holiday |
| Nov. 7 | *al-Ghazali, Deliverance from Error (entire) <at https://www1.columbia.edu/ sec/acis/ets/lhcc/cc-lh/readings/alghazal.html>
and *Moses Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed, web site forthcoming |
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Rejection of the Project of Synthesis
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| Nov. 12 | Niccolí Machiavelli, sSelected Political Writing,
pp. 1-80 Fourth Paper Due |
| Nov. 14 | * New World theorists (entire) https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis /ets/lhcc/cc-lh/readings/lasindie.html and https://www1.columbia.edu /sec/acis/ets/lhcc/cc-lh/readings/sepulvda.html |
| Nov. 19 | Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Protestant Reformation,
pp. 4-28, 38-42, 88-107, 43-63 c:Hillerbrand, cont�d and *Galileo Galilei, �Letter to Duchess Christina� (entire) |
| Nov. 26 | Ren� Descartes, Discourse on Method and/or Meditations on First Philosophy (entire) |
| Nov. 28 | Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, pp. 1-19, 33-42, 58-106 Fifth Paper Due |
| Dec. 3 | Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, pp. 111-48, 175-82, 212-35, 441-57, 467-75 |
| Dec. 5 | John Locke, Political Writings, pp. 261-387 |
| Dec. 10 | John Locke, Political Writings, pp. 390-436 Final Paper Due |
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Reading Period: Review Session
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| Dec. 14 | Final Exam, 12 � 3 p.m. |