Fall 2010
First Quarter Introduction to Ideas Schedule
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Mr. Lamb
AJLamb@fcps.edu
 
                               Room 209          Office- 222WK
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Assignments are due on the date they are listed.

Wed. Sept. 8
- Introduction to philosophy, Books, Questions, Knowledge, Truth, Proof, Epistemology, Brave New World

Fri. Sept 10-    Red Pill or Blue Pill?
 

Monday Sept. 13- Continue discussions,R and B paper due, What makes a good philosophy paper?  Read Reality Check, Opinion, Theories.

Wed. Sept. 15
-  Logic, Assumptions, Arguments- Read Bad Arguments

Fri. Sept. 17- Myth, read Early Greeks H/O and L: 23-26. Know philosophers. Be a Pre-Socratic philosopher!
 

Monday, Sept. 20- Socrates and Plato  L: 9-30, Q 1,2 

Wed. Sept. 22- The Divided Line L: 31-42, Q 3,4 

Fri. Sept 24- The Tripartite Soul- L: 43-53, Q5,6 
 

Monday, Sept. 27- Ethics- Gyges Ring, 

Wed. Sept. 29- The Ideal State, L: 54-65, Q 7,8,9 

Fri. Oct. 1-  More Plato     Paper first draft
 

Monday, Oct. 4- Aristotle reading on web page, L: 68-76, Q 1,2  Sophie's World on Aristotle (105-117)

Wed. Oct. 6- Aristotle Q 3,4 

Fri. Oct  8- Test 1-  Arguments, Myth, Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle 
 

Monday October 11- Columbus Day 

Tues. Oct. 12 Anchor Day.  Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy reading on web page, Q 1,2  Sophie 127-138 

Wed. Oct. 13-   PSAT DAY Early dismissal

Fri. Oct. 15-   Philosophy of the Middle Ages reading on web page Q 1, 2, 3, 4  Sophie 175-187. Paper Second Draft due
 

Monday Oct. 18- Group 1- Intro to Descartes, The Modern Era, L: 85-109 Q1,2,3,4

Wed. Oct. 20- Descartes Group 2-Clockwork Universe L: 100-130 Q 5, 6, 7, 8

Fri. Oct. 22-    Discuss Descartes,  Enlightenment , Empiricism, David Hume.  L: 134-145 Q 1, 2  Homecoming Week


Monday, Oct 25-  Theory of Knowledge  L: 147-158  Q 3, 4

Wed. Oct. 27-   Paper Due- Philosophy mini-seminars 

Fri. Oct. 29-  Causality L: 159-169 Q 5,6 


  END OF FIRST QUARTER

Wed. Nov. 3 Anchor Day- Reason the Slave of the Passions L: 170-183 Q 7, 8

Friday. Nov. 5 Test 2  Hellenistic and Middle ages philosophy, Descartes, Hume


Mon. Nov. 8  Anchor Day- Kant   L; 193-198 Q 1, 2 (Sophie 324-337)