Spring 2011 Courses
PH 101-001 Intro. to Philosophy 4 Cr.
M/W 4:00 - 5:50 C. Moore
PH 101-002 Intro. to Philosophy 4 Cr.
T/TH 9:10 - 11:00 C. Moore
PH 101-003 Intro. to Philosophy 4 Cr.
M/W 2:30 - 4:20 L. Jorgensen
PH 101-004 Intro. to Philosophy 4 Cr.
T/TH 3:40 - 5:30 R. Lilly
PH 207 Logic 4 Cr.
T/TH 11:10 - 12:30 S. Parrillo
F 11:15 - 12:10
PH 215 Buddhist :Philosophy 3 Cr.
T/TH 9:40 - 11:00 J. Smith
*PH 230 Drama & Philosophy 3 Cr.
T/TH 12:40 - 2:00 C. Moore
PH 241 Mind, Thought & Consciousness 3 Cr.
T/TH 2:10 - 3:30 L. Jorgensen
PH 306 Nineteenth-Century Philosophy 4 Cr.
T/TH 3:40 - 5:30 W. Lewis
PH 327R Nietzsche 4 Cr.
M/W 4:00 - 5:50 J. Smith
PH 375 Senior Seminar 4 Cr.
T/TH 9:10 - 11:00 R. Lilly
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PH 230-001
Our nine plays depict the struggle to maintain human virtue—during erotic attraction, through philosophy, or despite loneliness—and each (from Athens, Rome, France, and England) takes place in ancient Greece. We also study Plato and Aristotle on the development of drama and its role in living the good and examined life. The most vivid problems depicted in our works will be perhaps the most accessible: the hopes of love; the fears and desires for self-knowledge; the traps of cynicism. Our works—dramatizing conversation, confession, and decision—provide exemplary occasions and models for reflective exchange and the attainment of political and domestic self-understanding. We start with Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, and continue with Sophocles’ Philoctetes; three rewritings of the same story: Euripides’ Hippolytus, Seneca’s Phaedra, and Racine’s Phèdre; Aristophanes’ Frogs, depicting a contest between the Greek tragedians; the same comic dramatists’ Cloudsand Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens; Plato’s Ion and Symposium and Aristotle’s Poetics; and Molière’s The Misanthrope. The principal graded work will be frequent short- and mid-length writing assignments.