Welcome all,

The bookstore, unfortunately, failed to order the books I had requested two months ago. However, they have now made the order and assured me that the books will be available on time. I give the readings below and their ISBN numbers, in case you wish to order them on your own.

Sophocles, The Theban Plays (Penguin, 1974 ed.)ISBN 0-14-044003-8

Plato, The Republic (Penguin, 2007 ed.)ISBN 0-140-44914-0

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin, 2d, ed.)(paperback) ISBN-13: 978-0872204645

Jean Anouilh, Five Plays (Hill & Wang, 1986 ed.)ISBN-13: 978-037452229, ISBN-10: 0374522294

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories (Penguin, 2016 ed.)ISBN-13: 978-0143107606

Lois Lowry, The Giver (Houghton Mifflin, 1993) ISBN-13/EAN: 978054433626, ISBN-10: 0544336267

Session 1

Assignment 1

Like Aristotle, we shall begin our inquiry about justice by reviewing human experience. Therefore, for the first class to be held on Monday, August 21, prepare and bring to class a reflection not to exceed two double spaced pages on ONE of the following four possible experiences:

• An action undertaken by you that you would judge to be an act of injustice, or
• An action undertaken by you that you would judge to be an act of justice, or
• An action that you would judge to have been unjust to you, or
• An action that you would judge to have been just to you.

Note: I am not looking for your views on a social or moral "cause." Rather, I would like you to reflect solely on your own personal experience.

Readings:

Sophocles, Antigone

Anouilh, Antigone

Session 2

Readings:

Sophocles, Antigone

Anouilh, Antigone

We shall have some great talks together in this course.

David Forte