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    This document outlines the syllabus for an introductory philosophy course covering major Western philosophers from Plato to Rawls. It will include weekly readings from primary texts along with lectures and tutorials. Students will be evaluated based on 4 critical summaries of the readings, 2 term essays, tutorial participation, a midterm test, and a final exam. The course aims to introduce students to philosophical questions about human life, political order, ethics, knowledge, mind and body, and to develop skills in systematic and reasoned argument. Major texts will include works by Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, de Beauvoir and Rawls.

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    This document outlines the syllabus for an introductory philosophy course covering major Western philosophers from Plato to Rawls. It will include weekly readings from primary texts along with lectures and tutorials. Students will be evaluated based on 4 critical summaries of the readings, 2 term essays, tutorial participation, a midterm test, and a final exam. The course aims to introduce students to philosophical questions about human life, political order, ethics, knowledge, mind and body, and to develop skills in systematic and reasoned argument. Major texts will include works by Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, de Beauvoir and Rawls.

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    PHL 100Y1 L0101 SYLLABUS 2016-2017 Page 1

    PHL100Y1 L0101 Introduction to Philosophy Bader Theatre, TR12


    Ronald de Sousa JHB (170 St George Street, #526) http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa
    Lecturer's Office Hours (FALL): T 4-6pm in Vic, NF328; R 10-11:30am in JHB526, or by appointment.
    Email: sousa@chass.utoronto.ca
    Office Hours for Tutors will be arranged after each assignment is returned.

    Course Aims: This course is a historical introduction to philosophy. It takes up some basic questions about human life
    as they have been addressed in the Western philosophical tradition. What is a life worth living? What is a just political
    order? What is the basis for judgments of good and bad, right and wrong? Is there a God? What can I know, and how
    can I know it? What is the mind and what is its relation to the body? In pursuit of answers to these questions, we
    examine the views of influential philosophers of the past, in chronological order. We will read works by Plato,
    Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Mill, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Rawls. Those primary readings
    will be supplemented by the course lectures and, after the first week of the year, by tutorial discussion groups. Our
    concern in this course is not just the scholarly one of who said what whenthough you will be expected to pay
    attention to that; the aim is to DO philosophy: that is, to bring arguments to bear on the question of how to try to make
    sense of our existence. The goal is to learn how to raise and address questions in a systematic and reasoned fashion
    while learning something about the traditions, methods, and concerns of philosophy.

    REQUIRED: Course Texts to be procured: Please buy specified editions. Some are available as ebooks; you
    should, however, avoid editions without page numbers. Some additional texts are on Blackboard under Course
    Materials.
    Plato, Republic (2nd ed.). Trans. Grube; rev. Reeve. Hackett 1993. ISBN 9780872201361
    Plato, Meno, trans. Grube. Hackett, 2nd ed. 1976. ISBN 9780915144242
    Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. D. Ross. Oxford Univ. Press 2000. ISBN 0199213615
    Descartes, Meditations. Ed. A.Bailey. Broadview Press. 2013. ISBN 9781554811526
    Hobbes, Leviathan. Ed. Edwin Curley. Hackett Publishing 1994. ISBN 9780872201774
    Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Broadview 2011 ISBN 9781551118024
    Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Cambridge Univ. Press 1998. ISBN 9780521626958
    Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality. Trans. M.Clark & A. Swenson. Hackett 1998. ISBN9780872202832
    de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. Trans. Borde and Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage. 2011. ISBN 9780307277787

    Evaluation: Your course mark will be earned on the basis of: 4 critical summaries (@5% =20%) due before 9am on
    Oct 3,, Oct 24, Jan 23, Mar 6; 2 Term essays (@12%=24%) due December 9 and April 7 before midnight;
    Tutorial Participation (13%); Mid Term Test (10%) (during Exam Week); Final Examination (33%).

    All work will normally be submitted to Turnitin (see below), with a copy to Blackboard and one directly to your tutor.
    This will ensure that in case there is a problem with one or the other the time of submission will be recorded. For each
    summary, please use the header PHL100CS# LASTNAME [for # insert the number of the assignment: 1 and 2 are due
    in the first semester, 3 and 4 in the second]. (For essays, use PHL100E#). NO late summaries will be accepted. If you
    are prevented by illness from submitting on time, your tutor may ask you to do a make-up summary on a different date
    (on a text assigned for that date) without penalty. For Essays, a lateness penalty of 5% per calendar day will apply.

    Academic Integrity: Go to http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/newstudents/transition/academic/plagiarism; read the page


    carefully, and especially click on the link to How Not to Plagiarize

    Submitting to Turnitin: Normally, you will be required to submit your course essays to Turnitin.com for a review of
    textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, you will allow your essays to be included as source
    documents in the Turnitin.com reference database; they will be used solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism.
    The terms that apply to the University's use of the Turnitin.com service are described on the Turnitin.com web site.
    PHL 100Y1 L0101 SYLLABUS 2016-2017 Page 2

    SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READINGS: FALL TERM


    WK1 Sept 13/15 Introduction: What is Philosophy? A glimpse of its beginning in the Presocratics
    WK2 Sept 20/22 Plato: Republic Book I What is justice?
    WK3 Sept 27/29 Republic Book II to 376D. Kinds of Goods: Justice in the State and the individual
    WK4 Oct 4/6 Republic Books IV, V, VI, & the first few pages of VII (to 518d): Parts of the Soul; the Forms; the
    Line and the Cave analogies.
    FIRST CRITICAL SUMMARY DUE MONDAY Oct 3 by 9am
    WK5 Oct 11/13 Meno: The question of Definition and Meno's paradox
    WK6 Oct 18/20 Meno: What is Virtue, and Can it be taught?
    WK7 Oct 25/27 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics Books 1-2 The purpose of life.
    SECOND CRITICAL SUMMARY DUE MONDAY OCT 24 BY 9am
    WK8 Nov 1/3 Nicomachean Ethics Book 3.1-5 and 10.6-9: What is Happiness?
    NO CLASS ON NOV 8 (November Break)
    WK9 Nov 10 & Nov 15: Descartes, Meditations 1 and 2: Radical Doubt [No Class Nov 8]
    WK10 Nov 17 & WK11 Nov 22: Descartes, Meditations 3 and 4: The Existence of God
    WK11 Nov 24 & WK12, Nov 29: Descartes, Med 5 & 6: More on God: reconstructing the world
    WK12 Dec 1 & Dec 6: Hobbes, Leviathan Pt 1, secs. 5-6;11;13-16: knowledge; Social Contract.
    FIRST ESSAY DUE BY FRIDAY DECEMBER 9 11:59pm
    SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READINGS: WINTER TERM
    WK S1 Jan 12/14 Hobbes, Leviathan Part 2 17-19, 21, 30 Sovereignty and Obligation
    WK S2 Jan 19/21 Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2-4 Part I: Ideas & Impressions; Induction
    WK S3 Jan 24/28 Hume: Enquiry - 7 Humes solution: the nature of causality
    THIRD CRITICAL SUMMARY DUE BY MONDAY JAN 23 9am
    WK S4 Jan 31/Feb 2 Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals ch 2 The Basis of Morality
    WK S5 Feb 7/9 Kant: Foundations ch 3 The Categorical Imperative
    WK S6 Feb 14/16 J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism Chapters 1&4 (Blackboard) : Utilitarianism, and how is it "proved".
    [WK of Feb 20-24: READING WEEK: NO CLASSES]
    WK S7 Feb 28/Mar 2 Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morality, First Treatise
    WK S8 March 7/9 Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morality, Third Treatise
    FOURTH CRITICAL SUMMARY DUE BY MONDAY MARCH 6, 9am,
    WK9 March 14/16 Sartre: Existentialism is a Humanism (Blackboard)
    WK10 March 21/23 Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex: Part I Chapter 1 and Part II chapter 1.
    WK11 March 28/30 John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness" (Blackboard)
    WK12 April 4 Review (no new readings).
    FINAL ESSAY DUE FRIDAY APRIL 7 before midnight.

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