Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics I

Read Book I
text available at: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html
journals due on Mar. 1.
Guidance questions:
1. what are people pursuing in the end?
2. what are the criteria of happiness?
3. What is the function of man?

Announcement for this Thursday class

After consideration, I decide to continue discussion on Republic this Thursday.
Please review Book II from Adeimantos' speech to the end and Book VII "cave allegory". no journal for Thursday.
Yang

Plato: Republic Book II

read the whole Book II and the allegory of cave in Book VII
text available at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
Journals due on Feb. 18

guidance questions:
1. Glaukon mentioned three kinds of good, to which does justice belong?
2. Which problem did Adeimantos find in poems and religion? What does he want Socrates to prove?
3. What's the requirement of guardians in the proposed city?

Plato: Republic I

Read book I,
text available at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
Journals due on Feb. 8

Guidance questions:
1. Can justice do good to friends and do harm to enemies?
2. Does justice mean the advantage of stronger?
3. Is injustice more useful than justice?

Euthyphro

Read the whole text
Text available at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html
Journals due on Feb. 4
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If there is any question, please do not hesitate to ask me (tangxyang@gmail.com)

guidance questions:
1. What does Socrates seek to know from Euthyphro? Be precise.
2. What's the relationship between gods and piety?
3. Though there is no conclusion, what have you learned from this discussion?