Philosophy 100
                                                  Spring 2000                                       
Professor David A. Salomon


M, 2/28: Slide presentation: The Shift from Medieval to Modern Philosophy
W, 3/1: Midterm Review
     **Short Paper One Due
F, 3/3: **Midterm Examination

M, 3/4-F, 3/10: No Classes: Spring Break

                              Renaissance Philosophy        
M, 3/13: Rene Descartes, 383-86
     Meditations on the First Philosophy, 387-411
W, 3/15: Descartes, 411-30
F, 3/17: Thomas Hobbes, 431-33
     Leviathan, 434-59

M, 3/20: Blaise Pascal, 473-76
     Pens‚es, 476-82

Moving Towards Rationalism and Empiricism
W, 3/22: John Locke, 537-39
     "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," 583-90
F, 3/24: David Hume, 694-97
     "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding," 703-14

M, 3/27: Immanuel Kant, 774-77
     "Prolegomena," 817-30
     "Foundation for the Metaphysics of Morals," 882-92

Existentialism
W, 3/29: Friedrich Nietzsche, 995-98
     Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1006-08
     Twilights of the Idols, 1009-11
F, 3/31: Nietzsche, Twilights of the Gods, 1012-24

M, 4/3: Bertrand Russell, 1044-47
     The Problems of Philosophy, 1047-60
W, 4/5: Jean-Paul Sartre, 1131-35
     Being and Nothingness, 1135-49
F, 4/7: Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism," 1150-56     
     **Short Paper Two Due
     
M, 4/10: Samuel Beckett, Endgame
W, 4/12:  Samuel Beckett, Endgame
F, 4/14:  Samuel Beckett, Endgame

PostModernism
M, 4/17: Introduction to Issues in PostModernism
W, 4/19: Jacques Derrida, 1175-78
     "Signature, Event, Context," 1179-98
F, 4/21: No Classes: Good Friday

M, 4/24: No Classes: Easter Monday
W, 4/26: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations
F, 4/28: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations

M, 5/1: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations
W, 5/3: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations
     Last Day This Class Meets
     **All Longer Papers Due
     Final Exam Review
F, 5/5: This Class Will Not Meet