Friday, February 19, 2010

Midterm


  • How did Descartes prove God existed
  • What three issues did the Scientific Revolution raise
  • John Locke's ideas:  State of nature, law of nature, natural rights, state of war, meanings of property, social compact and the nature of government, the right of resistance
  • Page 80 - questions 5,6,9, 10, 11
  • Classical liberalism vs Radical liberalism
  • Utilitarianism
  • Page 184 - questions 4, 6

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Western Civilization II Honors




January 7 Syllabus and information

January 12 Background I

January 14 Chapter 1

January 15 Descartes Discourse on Method due (Not the Meditations section)

January 19 Chapter 2

January 21 John Locke Second Treatise of Government

Background II

January 26 Chapter 3

January 28 -------------------------

Feb 2 Candide Reading *



February 4 Chapter 4

Declaration of Independence (p 96)

Constitution (p 98)

Federalist Papers (p 110)

George Mason (p 119)

February 9 Background II

Chapter 5



February 11 Chapter 6

February 12 Chapter 7

February 16 Darwin Reading (p 186)

Huxley Reading (p 196)

February 18 Review for Midterm

February 19 ------------

February 23 Midterm in Lab A/S 220

February 25 Chapter 8

February 26 ----------------

March 2 -----------------

March 4 Marx Communist Manifesto

March 9 Chapter 9

March 11 -------------------

March 12 -------------------

March 23 Dostoyevsky Notes from Underground

March 25 Chapter 10

March 30 Nietzsche reading*

April 1 Chapter 11

April 6 -----------------------------

April 8 DuBois Souls of Black Folk

April 13 Background IV

April 15 Chapter 12

April 16 Freud Reading*

April 20 Chapter 13

April 22 Woolf Reading*

April 27 Background V

April 29 Chapter 14/Review for Final

May 4 ----------------------------------

May 6 Final from 8:00 – 9:40 in lab A/S 220



* Handouts from me

Bolded items are books you should have received in the Bookstore

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