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Description
This course will acquaint the student with some of the ancient Greek contributions to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition.
We will examine a broad range of central philosophical themes concerning: nature, law, justice, knowledge, virtue, happiness, and death. There will be a strong emphasis on analyses of arguments found in the texts.
Course Curriculum
- Characteristic Socratic Theses Unlimited
- Characteristic Socratic Theses (cont.) Unlimited
- Euthyphro and the Elenchus Unlimited
- Meno on Knowledge and Inquiry Unlimited
- Meno on Knowledge and Inquiry (cont.) Unlimited
- Immortality in the Phaedo Unlimited
- Notes on Platonic Forms Unlimited
- Republic I-II Unlimited
- Social Justice and Psychic Justice in the Republic Unlimited
- Social Justice and Psychic Justice in the Republic (cont.) Unlimited
- Plato’s Sun, Line, and Cave Unlimited
- Plato on Happiness Unlimited
- Third Man Argument Unlimited
- Aristotle’s Categories and Early Thoughts on Substance Unlimited
- Aristotle’s Categories II Unlimited
- Aristotle’s Four Causes Unlimited
- Aristotle on Science Unlimited
- Aristotle on Primary Substance Unlimited
- Aristotle on the Human Good Unlimited
- The Greek Conception of Virtue Unlimited
- Socrates on Weakness of Will (Akrasia) Unlimited
- Aristotle: Voluntary/Involuntary Unlimited
- Epicurean Empiricism Unlimited
- Lucretius on Death Unlimited
- Lucretius on Death (cont.) Unlimited
- Lucretius on Death (cont.) Unlimited
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