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    Western Philosophy 101: Western Philosophy from the Ancient Greeks until the Post-Modernists

    1. Ancient-
      1. The Ancient Greeks (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
        1. Socratic Method
        2. Syllogism (Logical Proofs)
      2. The Romans (Seneca, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius)
        1. Rhetoric
    2. Medieval-
      1.  The Christian European Philosophers (Augustine, Thomas Aquinas)
        1. Apologetics
      2. The Humanists (Petrarch, Michel de Montaigne, Erasmus of Rotterdam)
        1. Debate
    3. Modern-
      1. The Early Moderns (Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant)
        1. Commentaries (Full Work)
      2. The Late Moderns (Hegel, Kierkegaard, Carlyle, Nietzsche, Mill, Marx)
        1. Personal Philosophical Statements
      3. The Post-Moderns (Sartre, Foucault, Baudrillard) TIME PERMITTING

     

    7th SS: Covers the history of Pre-historic America until 1865.

    1. First Quarter:
      1. Geography, Maps and Graphs
      2. Pre-Historic North America to the Colonial Period
      3. American Political Philosophy
      4. The American Revolution
    2. Second Quarter:
      1. Early American Government (Articles of Confederation and the Constitution)
      2. The Federalist Era
      3. The Jeffersonian Era
    3. Third Quarter:
      1. The Era of Good Feelings
      2. Jacksonian Era
      3. Manifest Destiny
    4. Fourth Quarter:
      1. Pre-Civil War
      2. Civil War
      3. Reconstruction

    8th SS: Covers the history of American from 1865 until Present.

    1. First Quarter:
      1. Geography, Maps and Graphs
      2. Civil War Review
      3. Reconstruction
      4. Industrial Revolution/The Gilded Age
    2. Second Quarter:
      1. Immigration and Progressivism
      2. American Imperialism and Expansion
      3. WWI
    3. Third Quarter:
      1. The Great Depression/The Inter-war Years
      2. WWII
      3. The Red Scare/Early Cold War
    4. Fourth Quarter:
      1. Vietnam Era/Civil Rights Movement
      2. Ending the Cold War (Nixon to Regan)
      3. Pax Americana and Globalization