Philosophy 100
Fall 1999
Professor David A. Salomon
The End 
               
Socratic Dialogues are noted in the parenthesis. Please keep your presentation to between 5 and
10 minutes and relate it to a topic we are covering for that week. The presentation can be
impromptu or read from a prepared text. It is your responsibility to meet ahead of time and
present on the date assigned; unless otherwise arranged, if you do not present on the assigned
date, you will receive a 'O' for this assignment.


M, 11/15: BGE, chapters 5 and 7 Christopherson and Sales
W, 11/17: BGE, chapters 8 and 9 Klucas and Lyon
F, 11/19: Guest Speaker: Scott Howard on Neitzsche 

M, 11/22: This class will not meet
     W, 11/24: This class will not meet; I can be around to meet with students if appointments are
     arranged ahead of time
F, 11/26: No Classes: Thanksgiving Break
                                                                                                    
Postmodernism and Art Theory
     M, 11/29: Introduction Aesthetics including an examination of contemporary art: painting and
     performance art
               Read the preface to Danto's After the End of Art; examples of artists and art works
          mentioned in Danto are linked from the course home page
     **Short Essay #2 Due
W, 12/1: Danto, After the End of Art, chapter 1, Cope and Reyes
F, 12/3: Danto, chapters 3 and 5, Luttuck and Leheska

M, 12/6: Danto, chapter 7, Daniel and Reade'
W, 12/8: Danto, chapters 10 and 11

Modern "Art" and Philosophy
F, 12/10: Reza, Art, read first half of play, Doyle and Quenzer
M, 12/13: Reza, Art, read second half of play
     Last Day of This Class
     **All longer papers due
     
Final Examination: Tuesday, December 21, 11:30am-1pm. Format to be discussed. 


Course home page: http://www.bhsu.edu/dsalomon/phil100/fall1999/home.html       
     


















               





Week Six: Christian Philosophy and Metaphysics
     Thomas Aquinas, selections (Bingham and Standen)

Week Eight: Modern Angst and the German Question, Part One
     Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy (Bohls and Sprague)
          Short Paper #2 Due

Week Nine: Modern Angst and the German Question, Part Two
     Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy (Burrington and Sibson)
     Longer Paper Topics Due

Week Ten: A (Very Brief) Introduction to Native American Philosophy
     Vine Deloria, Custer Died for Your Sins, selections (on reserve)
     Gary Witherspoon, Language and Art in the Navajo Universe, chapter one (on reserve)
                                        

Week Eleven: What is "art"?
     Yasmina Reza, Art
     Seneca, "On The Happy Life," on reserve
               An overview of contemporary aesthetics and art criticism, including an examination (via
          the Internet, video, and slides) of contemporary art: painting and performance art

Week Twelve: Contemporary Philosophical Issues
               Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
          (Princeton UP, 1999)

Week Thirteen: Race and Social Justice
     Film: "The Planet of the Apes"
               Read Eric Greene, "Planet of the Apes" as American Myth, chapter one (on reserve in the
          library)
     Longer Paper Due

Week Fourteen: Conclusion
     Final Examination