week
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dates
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miscellanies
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1
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Apr 4-10
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•
your 1st assignment: definitions
• a few classical definitions
• 2nd assignment: The Euthyphro
(pre)
• full Euthyphro, etc
assignment
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2
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Apr 11-17
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• assignment for week 2
• lecture: Freud
on religion
• Nietzsche on religion
• Marx on religion
• anthropomorphism
• d'Holbach & Hoyle
against belief
• full assignment for 2nd part of week two
• rd: W K Clifford,
"Ethics of Belief," with SQs
• discuss Clifford SQs in the classroom
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3
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Apr 18-24
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• assignment
for week 3 (pre)
• assignment for week 3 (full)
• SQs for World's Religions
• DQs for World's Religions
• first self evaluation due
Tue (details posted in classroom)
• Click here to download midterm
SE Form
• Research project assignment
details
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4
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Apr 25 - May 1
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• assignment
for week 4 (pre)
• assignment for week 4 (full)
• James, Will to Believe
• James, VRE (Intro, Pref, TOC, 1, 2, 3, 4-5)
• SQs & DQs for
Will to Believe
• SQs for VRE,
week 1
• medical materialism
lecture
• Research projects need
to be OKed before this Tue
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• pilgrimage assignment
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5
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May 2-8
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• assignment
for week 5 (pre)
• assignment for week 5 (full)
• James, VRE (6-7, 16-17, 18, 20)
• SQs for VRE, week
2
• DQs for VRE, week
2
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6
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May 9-15
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• assignment
for week 6 (pre)
• assignment for week 6 (full)
• an important note about writing
your research paper
• Phenomenology
of the Great Spiritual Traditions
• Introduction to The
Individual and His Religion
• SQs and DQs for The
Individual and His Religion
• Outline of
Otto's concept of "the numinous"
• SQs and DQs for Das Heilige
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7
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May 16-22
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• assignment
for week 7 (pre)
• assignment for week 7 (full)
• Read lecture: Introduction
to Flatland
• Read "a
short intro to 4-dimensional geometry"
• Read Edwin
Abbott, Flatland
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8
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May 23-29
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• assignment
for week 8 (pre)
• assignment for week 8 (full)
• Lecture: Two
laws of dimensional ontology
• Smith, Forgotten Truth (pref, chps 1 & 5)
• SQs for Forgotten
Truth
• DQs for Forgotten Truth
• all research projects must be posted by this Wed
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9
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May 30 - June 5
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• assignment
for week 9 (pre)
• assignment for week 9 (full)
• Underhill,
Mysticism, Part I
• SQs for Mysticism,
Part I
• DQs for Mysticism,
Part I
• credo assignment
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10
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June 6-12
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• assignment
for week 10 (pre)
• assignment for week 10 (full)
• Underhill,
Mysticism, Part II
• SQs for Mysticism,
Part II
• DQs for Mysticism,
Part II
• Key course themes
DQ
• Course synthesis DQ
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Philosophy of Religion
