MODULE ONE: PRE-MODERN PERIOD (c. 4th CENTURY BCE - c. 1600 CE)

• Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: "Orientation of Critical Theories"

• Plato 
  • Phaedo [c.380 BCE]: "The Immortal Soul" (pp.127-134 in John Cottingham, ed. Western Philosophy: an Anthology R)
  • Meno [c.380 BCE]: "Innate knowledge" (pp. 3-12 in Cottingham)
  • Republic (trans. Francis MacDonald Cornford) [c.370 BCE] (also excerpted in E23F folder) R
    • Ch. XIII "The Three Parts of the Soul"
    • Ch. XIV "The Virtues in the Individual"
    • Ch. XXIII "The Good as the Highest Object of Knowledge"
    • Ch. XXIV "Four Stages of Cognition. The Line" ("Knowledge versus Opinion," pp. 12-19 in Cottingham)
    • Ch. XXV "The Allegory of the Cave" (pp. 63-70 in Cottingham)
    • Ch. XXVII "Dialectic"

Recommended Readings:

• Russell, Bertrand History of Western Philosophy: Bk. 1, chs. XI "Socrates" - XVIII "Knowledge and Perception in Plato"

• Taylor, Charles Sources of the Self: "Plato’s Self-Mastery"

• Aristotle
  • Categories [c.330 BCE]: "Individual Substance" (pp. 70-74 in Cottingham)
  • Posterior Analytics [c.330 BCE]: "Demonstrative Knowledge and its Starting-points" (pp. 19-22 in Cottingham)
  • De Anima [c.330 BCE]: "Soul and Body, Form and Matter" (pp. 134-138 in Cottingham)
  • Physics [c.325 BCE]: "Four Types of Explanation" (pp. 301-303 in Cottingham)

• Russell, Bertrand History of Western Philosophy: Bk. 1, chs. XIX "Aristotle’s Metaphysics" - XXIII "Aristotle’s Physics"

Week 2: ANCIENT GREECE II

Lec. 1: Plato's Philosophy of Language and Literature

• Plato 
  • "From Cratylus" [c.370 BCE] (pp. 38-48 in Hazard Adams, Critical Theory Since Plato R; also in Vincent Leitch, ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism R)
  • The Republic [c.370BCE]: Book X:
    • Ch. XXXV: "How Representation in Art is Related to Truth" (pp.31-35 in Adams, from "Of the many excellences . . ." [p. 31] to " . . . an object which is thrice removed from the truth?" [p.35]; also in Leitch)
    • Ch. XXXVI: "Dramatic Poetry Appeals to the Emotions, not to the Reason"
    • Ch. XXXVII: "The Effect of Dramatic Poetry on Character" (pp.31-35 in Adams, from "And what kind of faculty in man . . ." [p.35] to the end " . . . anyone else would have been." [p.38]; also in Leitch)

• Harris, Roy, et al. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I: "Socrates on Names"

• Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: "Imitation and the Mirror"

• Aristotle 
  • Aristotle On Interpretation [c.335 - 322 BCE]: sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 (pp. 595-598 in Marc Cohen, et al., eds. Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy; also in folder)
  • Poetics [c.335-322 BCE] (pp. 50-66 in Adams; also in Leitch)

• Harris, Roy, et al. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought I: "Aristotle on Metaphor"

• Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: "Imitation and the Mirror"

• Crane, R. S. 
  • Critics and Criticism:
    • "Introduction"
  • The Language of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry: 
    • "Poetic Structure in the Language of Aristotle"
    • "Toward a More Adequate Criticism of Poetic Structure" (also pp. 1002-1021 in Adams)

Praxis:

• Horace Art of Poetry [c.20 BCE] (pp. 68-74 in Adams; also in Leitch)

Lec. 2: 'Longinus' on the Sublime in Literature

• 'Longinus' On the Sublime [1st century CE?] (pp. 76-98 in Adams; also in Leitch)
  • Read: chs. I, II, VII, VIII, IX (1_4), XVI, XXX, XXXIX, XL

• Russell, Bertrand History of Western Philosophy: Bk. 1, ch. XXX "Plotinus"
• Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp: "The Development of the Expressive Theory of Art: Longinus and the Longinians"

WEEK 4: the Middle Ages

Lec. 1: Medieval Symbolism: Neo-Platonism

• St. Augustine "From On Christian Doctrine" [396-426] (pp.108-113 in Adams; also in Leitch)

• St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae [1256-1272] "From The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine" (pp.117-119 in Adams; also in Leitch)
• Dante Alighieri
  • The Banquet [1304-8] (pp. 120-122 in Adams; also in Leitch)
  • Letter to Can Grande Della Scala [1318]" (pp. 120-122 in Adams; also in Leitch)