• News forum
• Course Readings and Resources file
• Syllabus Resource
• Course Materials file
• Timeline of our Readings file
• Final Exam Questions Forum

December 10 - December 16

• Week 1:

  M 6/18                 1. Course introduction.
  2. Four questions and Four kinds of Alienation.

  T 6/19:                  Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling.  Preface-Ch2.
  
  

  W 6/20:                Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling.  Ch3-4.
                

  Th 6/21                 No Class. On line lesson and Forum posts required.
  Nietzsche Thus Sprach Zarathustra  Part I: Prologue; 1. Three Metamorphoses; 3. Afterworldly; 15. Thousand and One Goals, 16. Neighbor Love; 21 Voluntary Death; 22. Bestowing Virtue

  F 6/22                   Nietzsche Thus Sprach Zarathustra, Part II: 24. In the Happy Isles; 25. The Pitiful; 34. Self-surpassing; 37. Immaculate Perception; 42. Redemption.  Part III:  46-2. The Vision and The Enigma;  48. Before Sunrise; 54-1. Three Evil Things; 56-2. Old and New Tables;  57-2. The Convalescent; 59-3 The Second Dance Song.  Part IV: 79-11 The Drunken Song.

• Kierkegaard Biography and timeline file
• Kierkegaard Images file
• Nietzsche Images file
• Nietzsche Thus Sprach Zarathustra Intro. Lesson

December 17 - December 23

• Week 2:

  M 6/25                 Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov : Book I, Ch. 1, 4, 5. Book II, Ch. 3, 4, 5, 6. Book III, Ch. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8.
  Use these plot summaries to fill in the plot of the parts left out:
  

  T 6/26:                  Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov Book III, Ch. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8. Book IV, Ch. 1, 2 ,3, 5, 6, 7.

  W 6/27:                Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov Book V, Ch, 3, 4, 5

  Th 6/28                 Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov : Book V, Ch. 7. Book VI, Ch. 2, 3. Book VII, Ch. 2, 3, 4.

  F 6/29                   Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov  Book VIII, Ch. 4.  Book IX, Ch. 3, 4, 5 ,7 ,8. Book X, Ch. 4 ,6, 7. Book XI, Ch. 3.

   

• Selected quotes from the Brother's K. file
• Some Resources on The Brother's K: Timeline, letters, Notebooks, etc. PDF document
• Darmouth Resources on Doestoevsky file
• Brothers Karamazov Quotes Database

December 24 - December 30

• Week 3:

  M 7/2                    Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov : Book XI, Ch. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10. Book XII, Ch. 14. Epilogue, Ch. 2,3

  T 7/3                     Jaspers, selections in Kauffman. “On My Philosophy”, pp. 158-182

  W 7/4:                  NO CLASS

  Th 7/5                   Heidegger, selections in Kauffman,  “What is Metaphysics”, pp. 242-257.  Existence and Being (“The Way Back into the Ground of Metaphysics”pp. 265-279. Another version.

  F 7/6                     Sartre, “Nausea”
  Camus,  “An Absurd Reasoning” You may omit Absurd Walls, 4th Section  and Philosophical Suicide, 3rd Section.

December 31 - January 6

• Week 4:

  M 7/9                    Camus, Myth of Sisyphus”  pp. 375-378.
  Sartre Existentialism is Humanism.    Pp. 345-369Camus,
  The Stranger. Part I 1-76 in Gilbert trans.

  T 7/10:                  Camus, The Stranger. Part II, 77-end in Gilbert trans. Ch. I-V

  W 7/11:                Hegel on the Master Slave Relationship from Outline of the Phenomenology
  Sartre Selections from Being and Nothingness "Sincerity” pp. 309-324. 
  Camus, The Fall, 1-71     

  Th 7/12                 Camus, The Fall, 72-End 

  F 7/13                   FINAL EXAM

January 7 - January 13

• Particpation Week 1 Assignment
• Participation Extra Credit Assignment
• Participation Week 2 Assignment
• Participation Week 3 Assignment
• Week 4 Participation Assignment

January 14 - January 20

• Final (quotes) Assignment
• Final (Definitions) Assignment
• Final (Short Essay) Assignment
• Final (Long Essay) Assignment
• Course Grade Assignment

January 21 - January 27