I'm putting lecture notes online to help you organize your thoughts and review your own notes. Please ask in lecture or discussion if you have any questions about a previous lecture's outline. These are really the center of the course. By reading the assigned books, you will engage directly the thoughts of people in the distant past.
Lectures explain the readings and provide background.
When appropriate, they will be enhanced with slides and music. Discussion sections, Friday Discussions allow you to refine your understanding of the readings and resolve questions about them. The requirements are explained in detail on the course syllabus. The first reading assignment from the course books is due next Monday. We won't come up with definitive answers, but asking these questions, and seeing how people in the past have tried to answer them, we will come to a deeper appreciation of the variety of human experience.