LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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1 | Introduction: The Image of Nature in Genesis. | |
2 | Forster, E. M. "The Machine Stops." | |
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Ancient Views of Nature: Aristotle. Physics. Bk II. Cicero. Excerpt from On the Gods: The Discourse of Balbus. |
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Montaigne. "On Cannibals." Bacon, Francis. "The New Atlantis." Drayton. To the Virginia Voyage. Marvell. Bermudas. Shakespeare. The Tempest. |
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5 | Shakespeare. The Tempest. (continued) | |
6 | Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. | |
7 | Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. (continued) | |
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Linnaeus. Excerpts from The Economy of Nature. White, Gilbert. Excerpt from The Natural History of Selbourne. Hume, David. Excerpts from Dialogues on Natural Religion. |
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9 | Hume, David. Dialogues on Natural Religion. (continued) | |
10 | Rousseau. Excerpts from On the Origins of Inequality. | FIRST PAPER DUE (five pages) |
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Rousseau. Excerpts from On the Origins of Inequality. (continued) Wordsworth. Selections from The Prelude. |
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12 | Wordsworth. Selections from The Prelude. (continued) | |
13 | Wordsworth. Selections from The Prelude. (continued) | |
14 | Thoreau, Henry David. Excerpts from Walden. | |
15 | Thoreau, Henry David. Excerpts from Walden. (continued) | |
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Thoreau, Henry David. Excerpts from Walden. (continued) Keats. The Grasshopper and the Cricket, To Autumn. |
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17 | Darwin. Selections from On the Origin of Species. | |
18 | Darwin. Selections from On the Origin of Species. (continued) Frost, Robert. Design, Come In, The Most of It. |
SECOND PAPER DUE (six pages) |
19 | Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. | |
20 | Wells. Selections from On the Origin of Species. (continued) | |
21 |
Huxley, T. H. "Evolution and Ethics." Hardin, Garret. "The Tragedy of the Commons." |
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22 | Williams, George. "A Sociobiological Expansion of 'Evolution and Ethics'." | |
23 | Faulkner, William. "The Bear." In Go Down, Moses. | |
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Faulkner. Selections from On the Origin of Species. (continued) Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." |
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25 | Le Guin, Ursula K. "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow." | |
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Midgley, Mary. "Duties Concerning Islands." Callicot, J. Baird. "Animal Liberation." |
FINAL PAPER DUE (10 pages) |