My Introduction to Philosophy course
This semester’s major authors and texts will be Plato’s Apology and Crito, Descartes’s Meditations, Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, Lewis’s Mere Christianity, and Rand’s The Fountainhead.
We will be covering those authors and their views in their own right and using them as launching points for discussion of issues such as the existence of God, free will and determinism, the mind-body problem, and the meaning of life.
We will also use a number of shorter pieces from Daniel Dennett, Martin Luther, John Steinbeck, Rupert Brooke, and others as supplements.
Here are PDF files of the three-page syllabus and schedule and the seventy-three-page supplemental Readings in Philosophy booklet I put together.
Tags: Apology, Ayn Rand, C. S. Lewis, Civilization and Its Discontents, Crito, Daniel Dennett, Descartes, Introduction to Philosophy, John Steinbeck, Martin Luther, Meditations, Mere Christianity, Plato, Rupert Brooke, Sigmund Freud, The Fountainhead
