Index for PHIL-3080

History of Early Modern Philosophy

Dr. Ari Santas

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Valdosta State University

 

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Syllabus 3080f11

 

Schedules

For Readings and Presentations

For Conferences (for final unit)

 

Writing Assignments (coming soon)

Writing 1

Writing 2

Writing 3

 

Student Writing Samples (for papers accompanying presentation)

Sample Descartes Paper

Sample Hobbes Paper

Sample Leibniz Paper

 

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Abstract Form

 

Student Writing Sample (for term paper)

Malone Paper (on Hobbes’ Leviathan and US Government)

 

Student Evaluations Online

Instructions for Online Student Evaluations

 

 

Supplemental Online Materials and Texts

 

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)

Works by Nicolaus Copernicus at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Copernicus

Wikipedia on Copernicus’ Life and Work

YouTube video on Ptolemaic Planetary Model (3:13 min)

 

Johannes Kepler (1671-1630)

Works by Kepler at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Kepler

Kepler information and community website

Wikipedia on Kepler’s Life and Work

Wikipedia on Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion

Carl Sagan on

Epicycles, Ptolemy, and Kepler (10:33 min)

Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Kepler's laws, and ellipses (9:04 min)

 

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Works by Descartes at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Descartes

On Descartes’ Epistemology

Internet Encyclopedia entry on Descartes

YouTube Video on Philosophy and the Matrix--Descartes

 

Discourse on Method (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

Meditations on First Philosophy (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

Santas Notes Meditations, I

Santas Notes Meditations, II

Santas Notes Meditations, III

Santas Notes Meditations, IV

Santas Notes Meditations, V

Santas Notes Meditations, VI

 

Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677)

Works by Spinoza at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Spinoza

Internet Encyclopedia entry on Spinoza

 

Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

Treatise on Theology and Politics (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

John Locke (1632-1704)

Works by John Locke at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Locke

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Locke

 

Second Treatise on Government (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

Chapters 1-6

Chapters 7-13

Chapters 14- end

Letter About Toleration (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

YouTube video of Monty Python’s Constitutional Peasant

 

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)

Works by Leibniz at Project Gutenberg

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Leibniz

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on Leibniz

 

Monadology (full text from Oregon State site)

Theodicy (Leibniz’ abridged version of text from University of Idaho)

 

George Berkeley (1685-1753)

Works by Berkeley at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Berkeley

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Berkeley

 

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

First Dialogue

Second Dialogue

Third Dialogue

 

YouTube Video on Locke and Berkeley

 

David Hume (1711-76)

Works by Hume at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Hume

 

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

Santas Notes Enquiry I

Santas Notes Enquiry VII

Santas Notes Enquiry II

Santas Notes Enquiry, VIII

Santas Notes Enquiry III

Santas Notes Enquiry IX

Santas Notes Enquiry IV

Santas Notes Enquiry X

Santas Notes Enquiry V

Santas Notes Enquiry XI (not yet)

Santas Notes Enquiry VI

Santas Notes Enquiry XII

 

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

Parts 1-3

Parts 4-8

Parts 9-end

 

Pastafarian Satire on Intelligent Design (what Hume might have said to the Kansas School Board)

 

Voltaire (1694-1778), alias François-Marie Arouet

Works by Voltaire at Project Gutenberg

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Voltaire (Deism)

 

Candide (from Project Gutenberg)

 

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Rousseau

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Rousseau

 

Social Contract (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

 

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Works by Kant at Project Gutenberg

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Kant

 

Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

Toward Perpetual Peace (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

 

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)

Works by Wollstonecraft at Project Gutenberg

 

Vindication of the Rights of Woman (complete text from Early Modern Texts)

Chapters 1-2

Chapters 3-4

Chapters 5-7

Chapters 8-13

 

 

Dr. Santas Supplemental Notes and Writings

 

On Early Modern Philosophy

Santas Background Definitions

Santas Intro Notes for Early Moderns

Santas Paper Subject/Object Dualism and Environment

 

On René Descartes

Santas Notes Descartes Intro

Santas Descartes Subject-Object Diagram

 

On Spinoza

Santas Notes Spinoza Intro

Santas Spinoza Diagrams

 

On Leibniz

Santas Notes Leibniz Intro

Santas Notes Leibniz Discourse

Santas Notes Leibniz Monads

Santas Notes Leibniz Principles

Santas Notes Leibniz Table

 

On John Locke

Santas Paper Locke, Mechanism, and Property

Santas Notes Locke Intro

Santas Locke Subject-Object Diagram

Santas Locke Epistemology Diagram

 

 

On David Hume

Santas Paper Hume and Education

Santas Notes Hume Intro

 

On Immanuel Kant

Santas Notes Kant Intro

Santas Notes Kant’s Ethics

Santas Notes on Kant’s Noumenal Self

Santas Diagram Kant’s Reason-Nature