Materials and links for PHL 201

Note:  Some of these links refer to the mechanics and details of the 1997 offering of this course.  They are placed here for your information, so that , for example, students can have an idea of one way I have done exams and quizzes in the course.  

• [Philosophical Perspectives Syllabus]

Course Links for PHL 201:

Recent additions:

Quiz 4 on Butler's Parable of the Sower and non-dualist Vedanta (including Smith chapter on Hinduism) DUE 2:30 pm Friday, December 6

Group Work for Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (and some study questions for Quiz 4)

Quiz 3 on Confucius and Becker – Due 2:30 pm Friday, November 15, 2002

Becker and Education- notes from the talk I gave at SeattleUniversity in March, 2001

Group work on Confucius and Becker for PHL 201, Fall 2002.

Midterm, Fall 2002  The take-home versions of this exam are DUE Friday , October18, 2002, in RH436, before 2:30 p.m.

Quiz 2, Fall 2002 The take-home versions of this exam are DUE Friday , October11, 2002, in RH436, before 2:30 p.m.

Group Work on Buddhism and The Future of an Illusion

Quiz 1, Fall 2002 The take-home versions of this exam are DUE Monday, September 23, 2002 in RH436, before 2:30 p.m.

[Philosophical Perspectives Syllabus]

• Review Questions for Final Exam

• Quiz #2 DUE Dec. 4, 1997 in RH422 before 7 p.m.

• Some introductory notes on feminism for PHL 201(added Nov. 17, 1997)

• Study Questions for Quiz 2 and Group Work on Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower

• M. Kagan, PHL 201, Fall 1997, Open Format Midterm

Buber and Taoism

• Group Work on Taoism and I and Thou

• [2002 Kagan Notes on I and Thou and Martin Buber (1878-1965)]

Background material for Buber: 1997 Kagan notes on Descartes
Background material for Buber: 1997 Kagan notes on Kant

• [Andreas Schmidt's essay on Martin Buber]

• [Schmidt's German Martin Buber Homepage]

• [Schmidt's Abridged English version of the Martin Buber Page]

 Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism

• [Kagan notes on Huston Smith on Taoism]

• [Lecture notes on Smith on Buddhism]

• [FYI:  OLD TAKE HOME MAKE UP QUIZ (on Buddhism) DUE FEB 26, 1996 (due the 27th in Tu-Th section)]

Skinnerian and Freudian Perspectives

• [Skinnerian Criticism of Religion (from M. Kagan's "Psychology vs. Religion--Ad Hominem?")]

• [B.F. Skinner's 1990 American Psychological Association keynote address]

• [Here are some of my notes on Freud and a reconstruction of his critique of religion]

• [FYI:  OLD TAKE HOME MAKE UP QUIZ (on Skinnerian and Freudian Perspectives) DUE MAR 8, 1996 (due MAR 7 in Tu-Th section)]

Confucius and Becker--Perspectives on Culture, Excellence and Instinct

• [An Overview of Confucianism:  Michael A. Ashby's excellent summary]

• [Kagan notes on Ernest Becker's Birth and Death of Meaning]

• [P.S.: Applying Confucius and Becker]

• [The Legacy of Ernest Becker: Part I] and [The Legacy of Ernest Becker: Part 2] (Biography and commentary on Becker's work by Ron Leifer. M.D., one of Becker's closest friends)

• [Kagan notes on Confucius and Confucianism]

• [note: see below for more on Confucius]

• [FYI: OLD TAKE HOME MAKE UP QUIZ (on Confucius and Becker) DUE April 5, 1996]

Caste and Community: Women and Men: Sexism, non-dualistic Vedanta and Butler's Parable

• Some introductory notes on feminism for PHL 201(added Nov. 17, 1997)

• [Three study questions for Karen Horney's "Feminine Psychology"]

• [Here are some of my class notes on and about the Carl Gustav Jung material]

• [Some Links to C. G. Jung Information on the Internet]
   

  The Jung links include a brief biography & bibliography and additional information on some of the Jungian ideas discussed in class.

• [Outline of Joyce Trebilcot's "Sex Roles: The Argument from Nature"]

• [Discussion/class notes on reading from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex ]

• [Simone de Beauvoir-basic biographical information]

• [Group Work on Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower]

• [Notes on Vedanta/Hinduism]

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