PHIL 3820
Weekly assignments:
- The default is to outline the passage I assign.
- If you choose
a different passage:
- make sure it contains an argument.
- you have to tell me what it is. (I'm not a mind reader.)
- please make it terse---a paragraph
or two, not a chapter, or anything like a chapter.
(I have to read the passage side by side with your outline,
to check that the latter correctly represents the argument in the former.)
My experience is that attempts to outline longer stretches of text
don't generally work out well.
- Aug. 24: Utilitarianism, ch. 4, paras. 5-6.
(Gray ed., pp. 169f, starting "But it has not...")
- Aug. 31: U 2:19
(Gray ed., pp. 149f, starting "The objectors to
utilitarianism cannot always be charged...")
- Sept. 7: Analysis
vol. ii, pp. 252f, para. starting "But it will also, I think..."
- Sept. 14: Analysis
vol. i, pp. 109f, in footnote 34, the para. bridging the
pages,
starting "In this modified form, therefore..."
- 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").
- Sept. 28: Either A 5:6 or
Calhoun, Meaningful Living (mss),
para. briding pp. 169-170, starting "The view that leading a
meaningful life..."
- 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.]
- 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...").
- Oct. 19: OL 3:2 or OL
3:3-4, starting mid-paragraph, from "Thirdly..."
- Oct. 26: Analysis, vol. ii, pp. 374f (in note
66), the para. starting "Let us examine, then, what takes
place in this case."
MIDTERM SWITCHOVER: From here on in, weekly assignments are microcommentaries, rather than outlines.
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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.
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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.)
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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".
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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".
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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..."
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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".