{"id":1385,"date":"2012-11-07T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/?page_id=1385"},"modified":"2012-11-07T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T20:27:48","slug":"classical-ethical-theory-plato","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/course-outline\/classical-ethical-theory-plato\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Ethical Theory: Plato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Suzanne Obdrzalek, Philosophy Department, Claremont McKenna College<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Texts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooper, ed.\u2013Plato: Complete Works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Course Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plato is considered the first philosopher in the Western tradition to propose significant theories in ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy. This course will focus on a close reading of Platonic dialogues such as the Protagoras, the Republic and the Statesman. We will examine Plato\u2019s views on virtue and vice, psychological conflict, our moral obligations to others, and the political role of the philosopher. We will assess Plato\u2019s views for their philosophical merit, as well as discuss their influence on subsequent philosophers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Readings and Assignments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Week One:\u00a0Introduction (no assigned reading)<\/p>\n<p>Week Two<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Euthyphro<\/li>\n<li>Vlastos, \u201cSocratic Piety\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Three<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Gorgias<\/li>\n<li>Vlastos, \u201cDoes Socrates Cheat?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Four<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Protagoras<\/li>\n<li>Penner, \u201cThe Unity of Virtue,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Santas, \u201cPlato\u2019s Protagoras and Explanations of Weakness\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Five<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Irwin, \u201cRecollection and Plato\u2019s Moral Theory\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Six<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Vlastos, \u201cThe Individual as Object of Love in Plato,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nussbaum, \u201cThe Speech of Alcibiades: a Reading of the Symposium\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Seven<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Phaedrus<\/li>\n<li>Nussbaum, \u201c\u2018This Story Isn\u2019t True\u2019: Madness, Reason and Recantation in the Phaedrus,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ferrari, \u201cPlatonic Love\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Eight<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Republic, Books I&amp;II<\/li>\n<li>White, \u201cThe Classification of Goods in Plato\u2019s Republic,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kirwin \u201cGlaucon\u2019s Challenge\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Nine<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Republic, Books II-IV<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Ten<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cooper, \u201cPlato\u2019s Theory of Human Motivation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Eleven<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sachs, \u201cA Fallacy in Plato\u2019s Republic,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kraut, \u201cThe Defense of Justice in Plato\u2019s Republic\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Twelve<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Republic, Books V-VII<\/li>\n<li>Santas, Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle and the Moderns, chs. 3-5<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Thirteen<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Republic, Books VIII-X<\/li>\n<li>Williams, \u201cThe Analogy of City and Soul in Plato\u2019s Republic,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lear, \u201cInside and Outside the Republic\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Fourteen<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Statesman<\/li>\n<li>Dorter, \u201cJustice and Method in the Statesman\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Week Fifteen<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Laws, selections<\/li>\n<li>Bobonich, Plato\u2019s Utopia Recast, ch. 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Suzanne Obdrzalek, Philosophy Department, Claremont McKenna College Required Texts: Cooper, ed.\u2013Plato: Complete Works Course Description: Plato is considered the first philosopher in the Western tradition to propose significant theories in ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy. 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