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Index for PERS-2199 Persons, Fate, and Freedom in Film Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies |
Course Syllabus PERS-2199 Spring 2013
Course
Schedule 2199
Schedule S13
Final Project Options
These are
worth 25% of course grade (see Syllabus
for details)
Essay Option (5-6 page paper)
Film Option (3-5 minute film)
Student Evaluations Online
Instructions
for Online Student Evaluations
Writing Assignments
See my Reading and Writing
Guidelines
Short
Paper Assignment (Short Papers are worth 50 % of course grade)
Student
Sample Paper #1 (a nice example of how to do a Unit I paper)
Student Sample
Paper #2 (a nice example of Unit II paper)
Study
Questions for Films (for discussion and paper writing)
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Online
Reading and Video Materials (for substantive help on your papers and general edificationJ)
General Thematic Notes
Santas
Notes
on Theories of Self
Santas
Notes on
Identity, Memory and the Evil Genius in Film
Santas
Notes
on Identity, Fate and Choice
For Ancient Greeks
Sophocles
(497/6-406/5 BCE)
Oedipus Rex (a translation and adaptation by Dr.
Constantine Santas)
Plato
(423-347 BC)
Text of the Allegory of the
Cave
Santas' Notes
on the Cave
Aristotle
(384-322 BCE) Nicomachean Ethics
(see notes on Aristotle
and the Good Life)
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Reading |
Notes |
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Text of Book III
(On Choice) |
Santas
Notes Nic.
Ethics, Book III |
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Text of Book VII
(On Akrasia) |
Santas
Notes Nic.
Ethics, Book VII |
For Stoicism (A Good Life
is one of Reason and Self-Control: Living in Accord with Nature)
Reading
Stanford
Encyclopedia entry on Stoicism
Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) entry on Stoicism
IEP entry on
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)
Stanford
Encyclopedia entry on Seneca
(4 BC- AD 65)
Video
BBC Video on
Seneca on Anger Part
I; Part
II; Part
III
For Moderns
Rene
Descartes (1596-1650)
Stanford
Article on Descartes
Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) entry on Descartes
YouTube Video
on Philosophy and the Matrix--Descartes
Meditations on
First Philosophy (complete
text from Early Modern Texts)
See esp. Meditation
IV (on how to remove error and find truth through free will)
See Santas Notes on Meditations, IV
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
Selections from Identity and Memory from John Perry Reader
Text of
"Liberty of the Will" Book II, Chapter xxi
(Power), sections 5-27 (from Essay Concerning Human
Understanding)
Immanuel
Kant (1724-1804)
Selection
from Critique of Pure Reason:
Antinomies (see esp. Third Antinomy, pp. 219-22)
Text of Groundwork for the Metaphysics
of Morals
See Santas
Notes on Kant's
Noumenal Self
Baruch
Spinoza (1632-77)
Works by Spinoza
at Project Gutenberg
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy entry on Spinoza
Internet
Encyclopedia entry on Spinoza
Text of Ethics (see Parts IV & V-- beware: a
challenging read!)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Reading
Stanford
Encyclopedia entry on
Nietzsche (a general overview of Nietzsche’s Philosophy)
Wiki Article
on Nietzsche’s
Philosophy (a philosophy of overcoming)
Video
BBC Video on
Nietzsche on Hardship Part I;
Part
II; Part
III
William
James (1842-1910)
Text of Dilemma
of Determinism (from the view of a 19th century psychologist)
G.H. Mead
(1863-1931)
Mind,
Self, and Society (full text
online)
The Present as the
Locus of Reality (Mead's essay is a philosophy of time)
Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Article on Mead
and Temporality
Stanford
Article on Mead, Section
5. Sociality, Emergence, and The Philosophy of the
Present
Jean Paul
Sartre (1905-80)
Text of Existentialism
and Humanism (a philosophy of radical freedom and choice)
Philip K. Dick (1928-82) (many of
the feature films we view are based on his stories)
Works by Philip K. Dick at
Project Gutenberg
Complete
Stories of Philip K. Dick
Wikipedia Entry on The Golden Man
(basis for the feature film Next)
Impostor (text of short story the 2001 film of the
same name film is based on)
Minority
Report (text of
short story the 2002 film of the same name film is based on)
Michael
Gazzaniga, Who's in Charge? (a contemporary brain scientist discusses freedom)
Chapter 3
(discussion of the “Interpreter” feature of the brain)
Chapter 4
(discussion of the implications for free will)
Ari Santas,
Willpower
(article on freedom as a practice)