Fall 2009
First Quarter Introduction to Ideas Schedule
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Mr. Lamb
Jay.Lamb@fcps.edu
 
                               Room 209          Office- 222WK
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Assignments are due on the date they are listed.

Wed. Sept. 9
- Introduction to philosophy, Books, Questions, Knowledge, Truth, Proof, Epistemology

Fri. Sept 11- continue, Read, Sophie-  Garden of Eden and Top Hat,  Red Pill or Blue Pill?
 

Monday Sept. 14- Continue discussions,R and B paper due, What makes a good philosophy paper?  Read Reality Check, Opinion, Theories.

Wed. Sept. 16
-  Logic, Assumptions, Arguments- Read Bad Arguments

Fri. Sept. 12- Myth, read Early Greeks H/O and L: 23-26. Know philosophers. Be a Pre-Socratic philosopher!
 

Monday, Sept. 21- Socrates and Plato  L: 9-30, Q 1,2 

Wed. Sept. 23- The Divided Line L: 31-42, Q 3,4 

Fri. Sept 25- The Tripartite Soul- L: 43-53, Q5,6 
 

Monday, Sept. 28- Ethics- Gyges Ring,  Homecoming Week

Wed. Sept. 30- The Ideal State, L: 54-65, Q 7,8,9 

Fri. Oct. 2-  More Plato     Paper first draft
 

Monday, Oct. 5- Aristotle reading on web page, L: 68-76, Q 1,2  Sophie's World on Aristotle (105-117)

Wed. Oct. 7- Aristotle Q 3,4  Paper second Draft-Moved to Friday Oct 16

Fri. Oct  9- Test 1-  Arguments, Myth, Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle 
 

Monday October 12- Columbus Day 

Tues. Oct. 13 Anchor Day.  Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy reading on web page, Q 1,2  Sophie 127-138 

Wed. Oct. 15-   PSAT DAY Early dismissal

Fri. Oct. 16-   Philosophy of the Middle Ages reading on web page Q 1, 2, 3, 4  Sophie 175-187. Second Draft due
 

Monday Oct. 19- Group 1- Intro to Descartes, The Modern Era, L: 85-109 Q1,2,3,4

Wed. Oct. 21- Descartes Group 2-Clockwork Universe L: 100-130 Q 5, 6, 7, 8

Fri. Oct. 23-    Discuss Descartes,  Enlightenment , Empiricism, David Hume.  L: 134-145 Q 1, 2 Change


Monday, Oct 26-  Theory of Knowledge  L: 147-158  Q 3, 4  Change

Wed. Oct. 28-   Paper Due- Philosophy mini-seminars  Change

Fri. Oct. 30-  Causality L: 159-169 Q 5,6 


  END OF FIRST QUARTER

Wed. Nov. 4 Anchor Day- Reason the Slave of the Passions L: 170-183 Q 7, 8

Friday. Nov. 6 Test 2  Hellenistic and Middle ages philosophy, Descartes, Hume


Mon. Nov. 9  Anchor Day- Kant   L; 193-198 Q 1, 2 (Sophie 324-337)