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PHIL 3820
Weekly assignments:

  1. Aug. 24: Utilitarianism, ch. 4, paras. 5-6. (Gray ed., pp. 169f, starting "But it has not...")
  2. Aug. 31: U 2:19 (Gray ed., pp. 149f, starting "The objectors to utilitarianism cannot always be charged...")
  3. Sept. 7: Analysis vol. ii, pp. 252f, para. starting "But it will also, I think..."
  4. Sept. 14: Analysis vol. i, pp. 109f, in footnote 34, the para. bridging the pages, starting "In this modified form, therefore..."
  5. Sept. 21: System of Logic, Book III, ch. xxi, sec. 4, paragraphs 3-4 (pp. 573-574, starting "The considerations, which...", through "...opportunity of studying").
  6. Sept. 28: Either A 5:6 or Calhoun, Meaningful Living (mss), para. briding pp. 169-170, starting "The view that leading a meaningful life..."
  7. Oct. 5: SW 2:4 (the para. starting "When we consider how vast..."), but only part of the paragraph: from "Even the commonest men reserve the violent, the sulky..." to "in time have become a second nature." [In the older Gray edition, this is pp. 509-510.]
  8. Oct. 12 (due at the usual time): Bonus outline: Subjection 1:18 (the older Gray ed. pp. 493f, para. beginning "Neither does it avail anything to say...").
  9. Oct. 19: OL 3:2 or OL 3:3-4, starting mid-paragraph, from "Thirdly..."
  10. Oct. 26: Analysis, vol. ii, pp. 374f (in note 66), the para. starting "Let us examine, then, what takes place in this case."
  11. MIDTERM SWITCHOVER: From here on in, weekly assignments are microcommentaries, rather than outlines.

  12. Nov. 2: Wilde, "Decay of Lying," pp. 985 (bottom, starting "The theory is certainly a very curious one...") to 987 (through "...You have proved it to my dissatisfaction...").
    To my dismay, I see that HarperCollins has changed the pagination of the Wilde textbook, presumably to cut off the used book market. So: if you have the older edition (pink cover, or white cover with brown image of Wilde), the passage is as above. If you have the current edition (purple cover), you'll find it on pp. 1086-87.
  13. Nov. 9: Wilde, "The Burden of Itys," third verse from the end ("She does not heed thee..."). (To make sense of this, you'll need to read and get the drift of the whole poem.)
  14. Nov. 16: Wilde, "De Profundis," pp. 915-916 (old edition, =1020, new [purple cover] edition]), from "Reason does not help me" to "and live with freedom".
  15. Nov. 23: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, pp. 103-104 (old edition, =99, new [purple cover] edition]), from "And, certainly, to him Life" to "that is itself but a moment".
  16. Nov. 30: Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism", para. bridging pp. 1096-1097 (old edition, =1190 in the new [purple cover] edition), from "If a man approaches..."
  17. Dec. 7: Wilde, in "The Portrait of Mr W. H.", on pp. 1173-1174 (old edition, =323-324 in the new [purple cover] edition), from "For all Art has its medium..." up to "...the danger of ignoble realism and unimaginative imitation".