Fall 2020 *

Introductory Unit

AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 16

Unit 1: Confucianism

SEPTEMBER 21 – OCTOBER 5

Unit 2: Aristotle

OCTOBER 7–21

Unit 3: Daoism

OCTOBER 26 – NOVEMBER 9

Unit 4: Stoicism

NOVEMBER 11 – NOVEMBER 23

Concluding Unit

DECEMBER 2

* This course has been archived, see here for the latest version.

"The only critique of a philosophy that is possible and that proves something, namely trying to see whether one can live in accordance with it, has never been taught at universities: all that has ever been taught is a critique of words by means of other words." – Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations