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Schedule of Classes
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Sessions |
Dates |
Topic and Reading |
| 1 |
8/30 |
Introduction: the
High Renaissance generation |
| 2-9 |
9/2, 9/9, 9/13, 9/20,
9/23, 9/27, 9/30, 10/4 |
Niccolò Machiavelli:
The Prince (Penguin) -- purchase in bookstore or
online
alternate text at
http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm
Discourses, selections - at
http://www.constitution.org/mac/disclivy_.htm [DL]
Castruccio Castracane - at
http://www.online-literature.com/machiavelli/1068/ [DL]
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| 10-19 |
10/7, 10/14, 10/18,
10/21, 10/25, 10/28, 11/1, 11/4, 11/8, 11/11 |
Desiderius Erasmus:
Compendium vitae (Brief Outline of His Life) -- in
Blackboard, Course Documents (10/7)
Praise
of Folly (Penguin) - purchase in bookstore or
online -- pp. 3-19; 19-49; 49-75; 75-112; 112-134 (10/14, 10/18,
10/21, 10/25, 10/28)
Colloquies, selections - the
Shipwreck and
The Abbot and the
Learned Woman (11/1, 11/4)
Education of a Christian Prince - at
http://www.stoics.com/erasmus_s_education_of_a_chris.html
[DL] (11/8, 11/11)
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| 19-26 |
11/15,
11/16, 11/18, 11/22, 11/29, 12/2, 12/6 |
Thomas More (Saint):
Look at:
http://www.apostles.com/thomasmore.html
http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/default.htm
Utopia
(Penguin) - purchase in bookstore or
online (11/15, 11/16, 11/18, 11/22, 11/29, 12/2, 12/6)
alternate text online at
http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/utopia.htm or
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/more/utopia-contents.html
Tommaso
Campanella: City of the Sun - at
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/citysun.html or
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext01/tcots10.txt
[DL] (12/6, 12/9)
Francis Bacon: The New Atlantis - at
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/bacon/atlantis.html
[DL] (12/9)
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| 27-28 |
12/9, 12/13 |
Student presentations |
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