Philosophy 100
Introduction to Philosophy
Professor David A. Salomon
Spring 2000 Second Half of Readings

Renaissance Philosophy		
M, 10/23: Rene Descartes, 383-86
		Meditations on the First Philosophy, 387-430
W, 10/25: Thomas Hobbes, 431-33
	Leviathan, 434-59
F, 10/27:  Blaise Pascal, 473-76
	Pensées, 476-82

Moving Towards Rationalism and Empiricism
M, 10/30: Immanuel Kant, 774-77
	"Prolegomena," 817-30
		"Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals," 882-92

Film Break: Talking About the Nature of Souls
	W, 11/1: This Class Will Not Meet  (Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Kansas City)
	F, 11/3: This Class Will Not Meet  (Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Kansas City)

	M, 11/6: "The Sixth Sense" (because of running time, we will start the film at 8:55)
	W, 11/8: "The Sixth Sense" (because of running time, we will start the film at 8:55)

Existentialism
F, 11/10: Friedrich Nietzsche, 995-98
	Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1006-08
	Twilights of the Idols, 1009-11
M, 11/13: Nietzsche, Twilights of the Gods, 1012-24

W, 11/15: Bertrand Russell, 1044-47
	The Problems of Philosophy, 1047-60
F, 11/17: Jean-Paul Sartre, 1131-35
	Being and Nothingness, 1135-49

	M, 11/20: Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism," 1150-56	
	**Short Paper Two Due
	
W, 11/22: No Class: Thanksgiving Break
F, 11/24: No Class: Thanksgiving Break
		
M, 11/27: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
	**Longer Paper Topics Due via e-mail: davidsalomon@bhsu.edu
W, 11/29: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
F, 12/1: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

PostModernism
M, 12/ 4: Introduction to Issues in PostModernism
W, 12/6: Jacques Derrida, 1175-78
	"Signature, Event, Context," 1179-98
	F, 12/8: John Searle, Mind, Language, and Society, Intro and Chapter 1

	M, 12/11: John Searle, Mind, Language, and Society, Chapters 2 and 3
	W, 12/13: John Searle, Mind, Language, and Society, Chapters 5 and 6
F, 12/15: Last Day This Class Meets
	**All Longer Papers Due
	Final Exam Review