What is Philosophy? An Historical Introduction (Philosophy 111)

1. Introduction
2. Socrates and Plato, “The Apology” and Symposium
3. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
4. Augustine, Confessions (selections)
5. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
6. Thomas Aquinas, A Summary of Philosophy (selections)
7. Michel de Montaigne, The Essays (selections)
8. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
9. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections)
10. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
11. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
12. Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
13. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism and On Liberty
14. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods and “Civil Disobedience”
15. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Ancient Greek Philosophy (Philosophy 233)

1. Before Socrates
2. Plato, Republic
3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Continental Philosophy, 1800-1900 (Philosophy 273)

1. Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript
2. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Wilhelm Dilthey, Introduction to the Human Sciences

Continental Philosophy, 1900-1960 (Philosophy 373)

1. Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Being and Time, “Letter on Humanism,” and “What Calls
for Thinking?”
2. Edith Stein, On the Problem of Empathy
3. Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age

4. Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
5. Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society

Continental Philosophy, 1960 to the Present (Philosophy 374)

1. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Reason in the Age of Science
2. Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
3. Calvin O. Schrag, Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political
4. Jeff Mitscherling and Paul Fairfield, Artistic Creation: A Phenomenological Analysis