I’m taking HBC this quarter and I need to know if there is anyway to get PDFs of the readings assigned?
5 Dialogues (2Ed) - Plato
Genesis - Alter
Iliad (Fagles,Tr) - Homer
Oresteia - Aeschylus;fagles
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Phil Per >>>> HBC
Reconsider your life choices.
Randomly seconding the posted above, Phil Per was the most interesting sequence I took at the university.
PhilPer changed my life. Still not a philosophy major, but I spend more time in the 4th Floor Reg bookstacks searching Nietzsche and Plato more often than anyone should.
Buy used books cheap from upperclassmen (in the $3 - $8 range). You then own the equity in the books and can sell them next year for the same price, or at a slight markup if you’re an econ major.
Just want to note that one of my kids took Human Being and Citizen and loved it. (Obviously, he didn’t also take Philosophical Perspectives, so it’s hard to compare.) As I understand it, HBC is really the continuation of what the core humanities syllabus was before the core became a Chinese restaurant menu ("one from Column A and two from Column B . . . "), but individual instructors had a lot of leeway in how they taught the material, and PhilPer and Greek Thought represent elaborations of two standard kinds of pathway taken by professors who wanted to emphasize philosophy or classics.
If you get a good teacher and a good writing instructor, any of the Hum courses can be great.
I’m sure the library has lots of reserve copies of the HBC materials. You can buy less current versions of most of the texts for pennies, and compare them to the “official” translations on occasion in the library.
Heresy!