Steve Naragon

Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of Religion and Philosophy
Manchester College

Phone: 260.982.5041
ssnaragon@manchester.edu


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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”  — Aristotle


“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”  — Mark Twain


“Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.”  — Will Durant


“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”  — William Butler Yeats


“Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.” [We learn for life, not for school.]  — Seneca


“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”  — H. G. Wells


“The college was not founded to give society what it wants.  Quite the contrary.”  — May Sarton

Courses offered for Fall 2008 [weekly schedule]

Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 201) 3 hrs. — TR, 8:00-9:15am. Classroom: TBA. []

Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 201) 3 hrs. — TR, 12:30-1:45pm. Classroom: TBA. []

Logic (PHIL 230) 3 hrs. — MWF, 2:00-2:50pm. Classroom: TBA. []

Nineteenth Century Western Philosophy (PHIL 320) 3 hrs. — TR, 6:30-7:45pm. Classroom: TBA. []


Courses offered for Spring 2009 [weekly schedule]

Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 201) 3 hrs. — TR, 8:00-9:15am. Classroom: TBA. []

Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 201) 3 hrs. — TR, 9:15-10:45am. Classroom: TBA. []

Twentieth Century Western Philosophy (PHIL 423) 3 hrs. — TR, 6:30-7:45pm. Classroom: TBA. []

Environmental Philosophy (PHIL 425) 3 hrs. — TR, 12:30-1:45pm. Classroom: TBA. []


Office Hours

ADM 231c: By appointment (and check my class schedule)



MISCELLANEA

• The (old) MC Mission Statement

• Discover the Meaning of Life in three easy steps

Haiku Error Messages

• Robert Newman’s History of Oil [Download: 27.6 MB] [On Robert Newman, see his website]

Religion and Politics: Read Barack Obama’s “Call to Renewal Keynote Address” (June 28, 2006)

Race and Politics: Read and hear Barack Obama’s “More Perfect Union” speech in Philadelphia (March 18, 2008)


• An interpretation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

• Another interpretation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave


• Philosophy Soccer: Greece v Germany