UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY 703: EARLY MODERN THEORIES OF ACTION

Vere Chappell                                                                           Fall 1999

SYLLABUS


TEXTS

Aquinas, Thomas. On Human Nature, ed. T.S. Hibbs (Hackett 1999).
Aquinas, Thomas. Treatise on Happiness, tr. J.A. Oesterle (Notre Dame 1983).
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity, ed. Vere Chappell (Cambridge 1999).
Cudworth, Ralph. A Treatise concerning ... Morality, ed. Sarah Hutton (Cambridge 1996).
Locke, John. An Essay concerning Human Understanding, ed. P.H. Nidditch (Oxford 1975).
Handouts.

The books are at the Jeffery Amherst College Store.

SCHEDULE

Week of   # Reading (Author [Work Sections])                              Source
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Sep 08 -  0 Preliminaries

Sep 15 -  1 Aquinas ST I lxxv-lxxxiii                                     Hibbs

Sep 22 -  2 Aquinas ST I-II i, vi-xvii                                    Oesterle

Sep 29 -  3 Aquinas De Malo vi; ST I-II xviii-xxi                         Handout, Oesterle

Oct 06 -  4 Aquinas ST I-II xxii-xxiv, lv-lx, lxiii                       Hibbs, Handout

Oct 13 -  - No meeting                                                    ----

Oct 22 -  5 Aquinas ST I-II lxxi-lxxx                                     Handout

Oct 29 -  6 Bramhall, Hobbes                                              Chappell

Nov 03 -  7 Hobbes, Bramhall                                              Chappell

Nov 10 -  8 Cudworth                                                      Hutton

Nov 17 -  9 Cudworth                                                      Hutton, Handout

Nov 24 -  - No meeting                                                    ----

Dec 01 - 10 Locke                                                         Nidditch

Dec 08 - 11 Locke                                                         Nidditch