DATE (week of)

TOPIC—ASSIGNED READINGS

Aug 25-29

• Introduction (‘What is Friendship?’)
• ‘What is Logic?’ (Heraclitus, John, & Logic and Inquiry chp. 1)

• Logic and Dialectic (Logic and Inquiry chp. 2, & Plato’s Euthyphro 2A-9D

• ‘Piety is what I’m doing right now’: Forms vs. Particulars (Logic and Inquiry chp. 3)
• Discrimination and the Making of Distinctions (Logic and Inquiry chp. 4

• A Tool of Dialectic: Comprehension and Extension (Logic and Inquiry chp. 5)
• Movie

• A Tool of Dialectic: Antepredicaments (Logic and Inquiry chp. 6)
• A Tool of Dialectic: The Categories (Logic and Inquiry chp. 7)
• A Tool of Dialectic: Assessing Real Definitions (Logic and Inquiry chp. 9)

• A Tool of Dialectic: Aristotle’s Four Causes (Logic and Inquiry chp. 10)
• Putting it all Together: The Theory of Definition (Logic and Inquiry chp. 10, and Plato’s Euthyphro 11B-end)
• Nominal vs. Real Definitions (Logic and Inquiry chp. 10)

• Review

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

• The Goals of Discussion (Plato’s Defence of Socrates 17A-18E)
• Socrates’ Defence of Old Charges & his ‘Business’ (Plato’s Defence of Socrates 19A-24B)
• Socrates’ Defence of New Charges (Plato’s Defence of Socrates 24B-28B)
• ‘The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living’ (Plato’s Defence of Socrates 28B-end)

PART II: PROPOSITIONS

• The Second Act of the Intellect: Judging (Logic and Inquiry chp. 11)
• A Tool of Dialectic: Supposition (Logic and Inquiry chp. 12)
• Movie

• A Tool of Dialectic: Divisions of Propositions & Distribution (Logic and Inquiry chps. 13 & 14)
• A Tool of Dialectic: The Square of Opposition (Logic and Inquiry chp. 15)

• A Tool of Dialectic: The Square of Opposition (Logic and Inquiry chp. 15), con't

PART III: ARGUMENTATION

• Ways of Knowing: Placing Argumentation in Context (Logic and Inquiry, chp. 17)
• Deduction vs. Induction (Logic and Inquiry, chp. 17)

• A Tool of Dialectic: Categorical Syllogisms (Logic and Inquiry chp. 18 & 19)
• Movie

• A Tool of Dialectic: Compound Syllogisms (Logic and Inquiry, chp. 22)
• Crito’s Objections (Plato’s Crito 43A-46B)
• Socrates’ Response (Plato’s Crito 46B-50A)
• Socrates’ Response, con’t (Plato’s Crito 50A-end)

• A Tool of Dialectic: Material Fallacies (Logic and Inquiry chp. 25)
• Dialectic, Friendship & Midwifery (Logic and Inquiry, chp. 26, Theaetetus 148E-151D)

• Review