Phil 1301 (PHIL1301)

Class notes over two essays in Emerson's "Nature and Selected Essays": Self-Reliance and The Divinity School Address. Gives a general analysis of each essay. Topics include biography of Emerson, transcendentalism, reenchanting nature and bringing it back into our lives, self-reliance, anti-conformism, different ways to reach the truth, believing in yourself, staying true to yourself, sentiment of virtue, divinity is within you, religion should be reformed, preaching is unrelatable to modern p...

These notes cover parts 1-4 of Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes. Topics covered include: rationalism, modernism, how to go about thinking like a philosopher, Descartes' three rules and four maxims on how to think like a philosopher, his revelation on doubting and the "I think, therefore I am" idea, etc.

Class notes over Plato's book "The Republic". Topics covered in the notes: what is philosophy, background on Socrates, Plato, and history up intil this point, important Greek philosophical vocab, key point analysis on the weekly readings of the book, etc.