Intro:
Handouts on war (Jason Epstein), prisons (Michael Berryhill); movie Pixote
Existentialism: Monasterio on Frankl and Sartre
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God; The Infernal Machine (on Oedipus)

Religious views
Augustine vs. Manichees and then vs. the Pelagians
brief readings on Islam and the arguments about God's will and human freedom
Aquinas, in the context of the Albigensians (Cathars)
Calvin on Predestination

Philosophy
Hume on liberty and necessity
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Daniel Dennet, Elbow Room brief selection
Spencer and Marx suggests historical forces at work

Social Sciences
Rye: Yalom on the forces at work in making decisions
Breitwisch on evolutionary psychology
Judith Rich Harris on peer pressures
Jared Diamond on cultural evolution; Barnes on stages of culture and religion
Anthropology: Marvin Harris, on sacred cows
V. Anderson and brain studies
Piaget, Kohlberg, and Fowler, theories of individual development

Also relevant: material from paper presentations.

GENERAL IMPORTANT GUIDELINE IN WRITING THE FINAL EXAM
       It is not difficult to speculate on inner freedom on the basis of philosophical ideas and personal experience. But there is far more relevant material available than that. There are sufficient empirical studies to provide a good sense of various forces at work that may set rather strong parameters - for better or for worse - on the actual ability of a person to recognize choices, evaluate them, choose among them, and act on the choice. Your exam will be strongest if it refers to such empirical information quite explicitly and in sufficient detail that an intelligent first year student would have enough information in your paper, without needing extra outside sources or guidance, to understand well the case you are making for your conclusions about what kind and what degree of inner freedom we humans beings possess.

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