General remark (I-III): Subject to departmental approval, a student
may, in each of the categories (I-III), substitute a different item, either by
one of the authors listed or by a different author.
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I. Ancient philosophy:
Restriction -- a student may not choose both items
from the same author.
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| 1. Plato |
Republic |
| 2. Plato |
Meno,
Gorgias or Phaedrus,
Symposium |
| 3. Plato |
Theaetetus,
Sophist |
| 4. Aristotle |
Nicomachean
Ethics |
| 5. Aristotle |
Politics |
| 6. Aristotle |
Rhetoric,
Poetics |
| 7. Aristotle |
Metaphysics |
II.
Early modern philosophy (Rationalists marked with ‘R'; Empiricists with
‘E'): Restriction:
A student may not choose two empiricists (two 'E' items) or two rationalists
(two 'R' items).
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| 1. Descartes
(R) |
Discourse
on Method,
Meditations |
| 2. Spinoza
(R) |
Ethics |
| 3. Leibniz
(R) |
Discourse
on Metaphysics,
Monadology |
| 4. Locke
(E) |
Essay
Concerning Human Understanding, Book II |
| 5. Berkeley
(E) |
Principles
of Human Knowledge,
Three
Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous |
| 6. Hume
(E) |
Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding,
Enquiry
Concerning the Principles of Morals |
| 7. Kant |
Prolegomena
to any Future Metaphysics,
Groundwork
of the Metaphysic of Morals |
| 8. Hobbes |
Leviathan |
| 9. Rousseau |
First
and Second Discourses |
III.
Late modern philosophy:
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| 1. Hegel |
Phenomenology
of Mind, excerpts: "Introduction," "Sense Certainty," "Lordship
and Bondage" |
| 2. Marx |
Economic
and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 |
| 3. Nietzsche |
Beyond
Good and Evil or On
the Genealogy of Morals |
| 4. Mill |
On
Liberty,
Utilitarianism |
| 5. James |
Pragmatism,
Meaning
of Truth |
| 6. Dewey |
Experience
and Nature |
| 7. Wittgenstein |
Philosophical
Investigations, Part I |
| 8. Heidegger |
Being
and Time, Division I |
IV.
Areas of contemporary philosophy: Subject to the approval of two regular
department members (who will also serve as graders), the student will nominate a
work from one of the following two divisions of contemporary philosophy: Restriction:
No author chosen in (III) may be chosen in (IV).
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| 1. Value
theory |
(areas
such as ethics, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, feminism). |
| 2. Metaphysics and epistemology |
(areas
such as metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science,
philosophy of language). |
