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Civilization Sequence Program
CVSP 202: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE Spring 2012-13
Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, MONDAYS, 1:00 pm |
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Date |
Lecture |
Reading assignment for class discussions |
Jan. 28- Feb. 1 |
[No Lecture] |
Introduction and Religious Background, Film clips and key concepts |
Feb. 4 – 8 |
Philosophical Background |
Plato, Republic, ‘Simile of the cave’, 514a-521b (CVSP Reading selection)
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Alpha 9 990a33-993a25 (CVSP Reading selection)
Plotinus, Enneads, V.2, V.4 (CVSP Reading selection) |
Feb. 11 – 15 |
Christian thought in late antiquity: Augustine |
Augustine: Confessions Book I Chs 1,4,7,20; Book II Chs 1,4,5,6; Book III Chs 4,5; Book VII Chs 3,4,5,9,10,16-21; Book VIII Chs 2,8,9,11,12; Book X Chs 7,8,11,16,17,24-27; Book XI Chs 3,14,28; Book XIII Chs 11 |
Feb. 18 – 22 |
[No Lecture] |
Augustine (continued) |
Feb. 25 – Mar. 1 |
Introduction to Classical Islamic Thought |
Ikhwan al-Safa’, The case of the Animals Versus Man Before the King of the Jinn (CVSP Reading selection)
al-Ghazali, al-Munqidh min al-dalal (CVSP Reading selection / Watt’s Translation with adjustments) |
Mar. 4 – 8 |
[No Lecture] |
Ikhwan al-Safa and al-Ghazali (continued) |
Mar. 11 – 15 |
[No Lecture] |
Ikhwan al-Safa and al-Ghazali (continued) |
Mar. 18 – 22 |
The scholastic tradition |
Ibn Rushd, The Decisive Treatise (CVSP Reading Selection)
Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed (CVSP Reading Selection)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles &Summa Theologiae (CVSP Reading Selection) |
Mar. 26 – 28 |
[No Lecture] |
Ibn Rushd, Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas (continued) |
Mar. 29 – Apr. 1 |
LATIN EASTER VACATION |
Apr. 2 – 5 |
[No Lecture] |
Ibn Rushd, Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas (continued) |
Apr. 8 – 12 |
[No Lecture] |
Ibn Rushd, Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas (continued) |
Apr. 15 – 19 |
[No Lecture] |
Ibn Rushd, Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas (continued) |
Apr. 22 – 26 |
Christian thought expressed through poetry: Dante |
Dante, Divine Comedy: Inferno Canto 1; Purgatory Cantos 1,2,9,16,17,18,27,30,31;
Paradise Cantos 30, 31 |
Apr. 29 – May 2 |
[No lecture] |
Dante (continue) |
May 3 – 6 |
GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER VACATION |
May 7 – 10 |
[No lecture] |
Dante (continue) |