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PHIL 101

Introduction to Philosophy: Values and Society

3 units

Spring 2023

Topics

Examined Life
Justice and Power
Political Authority

Fall 2022

Readings

Plato, Republic I: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.2.i.html ↗
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Plato, Republic II, 357A-367E (from the beginning of Book II to the speech by Adeimantus ending with the words “whether seen or unseen by gods and men”): http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.3.ii.html; Republic IV, 427C-457A (from the speech beginning, “But where, amidst all of this, is justice?”, to the end of Book IV): http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.5.iv.html ↗
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Cicero, On Final Ends I, sections 9-21: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cicero/de_Finibus/1*. html ↗
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Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
PHIL 101 INTRO TO PHIL: VALUES&SOCIETY · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
PHIL 101 INTRO TO PHIL: VALUES&SOCIETY · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
2016-Summer-PHIL-101-LECTURE-X50 ↗2016
2016-Summer-PHIL-101-SEMINAR-X51 ↗2016
2017-Spring-PHIL-101-LECTURE-X01 ↗2017
2017-Fall-PHIL-101-LECTURE-A01 ↗2017
2018-Spring-PHIL-101-LECTURE-X03 ↗2018
2020-Fall-PHIL-101-LECTURE-A1 ↗2020
2021-Winter-PHIL-101-LECTURE-B1 ↗2021
2021-Fall-PHIL-101-LECTURE-802 ↗2021
2022-Winter-PHIL-101-LECTURE-B1 ↗2022
2022-Winter-PHIL-101-SEMINAR-J1 ↗2022
2022-Fall-PHIL-101-LECTURE-A1 ↗2022
2023-Spring-PHIL-101-LECTURE-A1 ↗2023
No textbook required according to this source. Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.
Additional readings are supplied through the course LMS. Partial automated extraction.