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PHIL 5193/6193
Weekly assignments:

  1. Aug. 22 (for students who want to get an early start): WP 1062 (abbreviations ).
  2. Aug. 29: GM I.14. (It's helpful if you try reading this aloud, when you figure this section out -- and I'm going to ask people to do that in class, so you can prep for it by practicing one or the other voice.)
  3. Sept. 5: BGE 43.
  4. Sept. 12: BGE 223 or GS 348.
  5. Sept. 19: Z II.12 ("On Self-Overcoming"). There are several topics treated in this section; pick one of them for your microcommentary. (OK to do this one for the week of Sept. 26.)
  6. Sept. 26: Z III.12 ("On Old and New Tablets"), either secs. 3-4 or sec. 8.
  7. Oct. 3: BGE 36.
  8. Oct. 10 (Bonus Microcommentary): GS 372.
  9. Oct. 17: GS 120.
  10. Oct. 24: GS 299.
  11. Oct. 31: GS P.2.
  12. Nov. 7: D 103 or D 105.
  13. Nov. 14: AC 6 or TI 6.5 (in "The Four Great Errors", "The psychological explanation of this")
  14. Nov. 21: AC 15 or EH I ("Why I Am So Wise").2 (section starts "Apart from the fact that I am a decadent...").
  15. Nov. 28: EH I.6 (section starts "Freedom from ressentiment...").
  16. Dec. 5: BT 18 (but leave the politics out, and remember to get it down to a single, short para.), or BT 24.