Guided by the writings of three great philosophers who are also great imaginative writers, we will consider what is really real, what we can know and what knowledge is, whether we are thinking bodies or minds somehow connected with bodies, what it is to be or have a self, whether we are ultimately motivated by a desire for pleasure or for what is best, and what goodness is.

Required books:

Great Dialogues of Plato (trans. Rouse), Signet, ISBN 9780451530851 ($6.95)

Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. Hackett, ISBN 0872201929 ($5.95)

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature. Penguin, ISBN 0140432442 ($15.00)