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.
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]
Background
material for Buber: 1997 Kagan notes on Descartes
Background
material for Buber: 1997 Kagan notes on Kant
[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)
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 ]