Notes — PHL-1010
Study notes for every week in this course — objectives, key terms, concept prose, worked examples, and a self-check. Download the Word file to add your name and handwritten notes.
Week 1 · Week 1: Introduction to Philosophy — Plato's Cave · Ch. 1: What Philosophy Is, Ch. 2: How Philosophy is Done · Read · Word
Week 3 · Week 3: Plato's Symposium · Aristotle's Four Causes · Basic Logic and Fallacies · Ch. 2: How Philosophy is Done, Ch. 3: Ancient Philosophy, Ch. 8: Love and Happiness · Read · Word
Week 4 · Week 4: Philosophy and the Sacred — The Great Monotheisms, Augustine, Aquinas · Ch. 3: Ancient Philosophy, Ch. 4: The Rationalists · Read · Word
Week 5 · Week 5: Modern Philosophy — Descartes and Locke · Ch. 4: The Rationalists, Ch. 5: The Empiricists · Read · Word
Week 6 · Week 6: Kant · Women in Philosophy · Thinkers of Color · Ch. 10: Right Action, Ch. 11: Social Justice · Read · Word
Conclusion — Final Major Essay
this weekWeek 7 · Week 7: Conclusion — Final Major Essay · Ch. 9: Meta-Ethics, Ch. 10: Right Action, Ch. 11: Social Justice · Read · Word
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