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LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES


1	Introduction. Excerpt from Genesis.


2	Sophocles, Antigone. Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail.


3	Plato, The Republic. Parts I and II (pp. 61-128) [327a-376c]**.


4	Plato, The Republic. Part III, section 2 (pp. 166-176) [403d-412a]; Parts IV and V (pp. 177- 24) [412a-445d].


5	Plato, The Republic. Part VII (pp. 260-325) [471c-521b], Part IX, section 10 (pp. 398-420) [576c-592a].


6	Aristotle, excerpt from Nichomachean Ethics.


7	Aristotle, excerpt from Nichomachean Ethics.


8	Excerpt from The Gospel According to St Matthew. Dante, Inferno.


9	Dante, Inferno.


10	Dante, Inferno.	FIRST PAPER DUE (SIX PAGES)


11	Machiavelli, excerpt from The Prince. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.


12	Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.


13	Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.


14	Thomas Hobbes, excerpt from Leviathan.


15	Herman Melville, Billy Budd.


16	Herman Melville, Billy Budd.


17	Kant: Excerpts from Metaphysics of Morals.	SECOND PAPER DUE (SIX PAGES)


18	J. S. Mill, excerpts from Utilitarianism.


19	Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part I.


20	Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part II, Part III, ch. 1-3.


21	Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part III, 4-end, Part IV, Part V.


22	Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part VI, Epilogue.


23	Conrad, "The Secret Sharer."


24	Shaw, Major Barbara.


25	Shaw, Major Barbara.


26	Flannery O. Connor, "The Displaced Person."	FINAL PAPER DUE (TEN PAGES)

** Numbers in brackets are standard marginal notations for all translations and editions, based by convention on the edition of Plato's works edited by Stephanus and published in 1578.

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