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Lecture	Date	Web Slides and Links
2	Jan. 19	Logic Lesson Summary points How to read Aquinas
3	Jan. 21	Varieties of Ignorance
4	Jan. 26	Aquinas's Argument from Q 16, Art. 6, that we have free choice
5	Jan. 28	An argument we'll consider Is There an Ultimate End for Human Life?
6	Feb. 2	Sample Argument for Class Analysis of the Argument
8	Feb. 16	Hume's terminology
9	Feb. 18	Positions in the freedom/determinism debate
10	Feb. 23	Hume's Complex Conception of Liberty Premeditation Hasty Choice Acting "in the Heat of Passion" Weakness of the Will
11	Feb. 25	Hume, "On the Influencing Motives of the Will" (Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Part III, Section iii) from the University of Adelaide Library (Australia) – Note: I changed the link to one with better formatting.
12	Mar. 2	Kant's Argument Against Hume Lexicon of Kant-speak
13	Mar. 4	Hume's First Argument Hume's Second Argument
15	Mar. 18	William James, "The Dilemma of Determinism" (reading) James's Argument Against Soft Det. Determinism, Fatalism, & Predestination
20	Apr. 8	James's Argument for the Right to Believe We're Free How We Choose Between Determinism and Freedom
22	Apr. 15	Three Passages from Freud
23	Apr. 20	Memory of the Will
25	Apr. 27	Gay Science, section 290 and a few additional passages from The Gay Science Quote from Muhammad Ali Quote from Richard Rodriguez

Introduction to Philosophy: Freedom