Informações sobre o curso: What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold proposals about the ultimate constituents of reality, while Heraclitus insisted that there is an underlying order to the changing world. Parmenides of Elea formulated a powerful objection to all these proposals, while later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and the atomist Democritus) attempted to answer that objection. In fifth-century Athens, Socrates insisted on the importance of the fundamental ethical question—“How shall I live?”—and his pupil, Plato, and Plato’s pupil, Aristotle, developed elaborate philosophical systems to explain the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness. After the death of Aristotle, in the Hellenistic period, Epicureans and Stoics developed and transformed that earlier tradition. We will study the major doctrines of all these thinkers. Part I will cover Plato and his predecessors. Part II will cover Aristotle and his successors.
Ministrado por: Susan Sauvé Meyer, Professor
Department of Philosophy
| Idioma | English, Legendas: Spanish |
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| Classificação do usuário |
- Leyendo: Milesians Readings
- Vídeo: How We Study the Pre-Socratics
- Vídeo: Fragments and Sources
- Vídeo: Philosophers or scientists?
- Vídeo: The Material Principle
- Vídeo: God in Nature?
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Questions: Milesians
- Leyendo: Heraclitus Readings
- Vídeo: Heraclitus on the LOGOS
- Vídeo: Heraclitus on Change
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Questions: Heraclitus
- Leyendo: Parmenides
- Vídeo: Parmenides Against Change
- Vídeo: Responses to Parmenides
- Vídeo: Naturalism after Parmenides
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Questions: Parmenides & his legacy
- Leyendo: Plato's Apology
- Leyendo: Plato's Euthyphro
- Vídeo: Plato and Socrates
- Vídeo: Socrates in the Apology
- Vídeo: Piety in the Euthyphro
- Vídeo: Morality and Religion
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Questions: Plato's Apology and Euthyphro
- Leyendo: Plato's Meno
- Vídeo: Teachers of Virtue?
- Vídeo: Theory of Recollection
- Vídeo: Was Socrates Teaching?
- Vídeo: Meno's Paradox
- Vídeo: Knowledge vs. True Belief
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Question: Plato's Meno
- Leyendo: Republic Book 1
- Leyendo: Republic Book 2
- Leyendo: Republic Book 4
- Vídeo: Is Justice a Virtue?
- Vídeo: The Just City
- Vídeo: The Just Soul
- Vídeo: Rational Injustice?
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Questions: Plato's Republic 1-4
- Leyendo: Republic Book 5
- Leyendo: Republic Books 6-7
- Vídeo: The Real and the Good
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Question: Plato's Republic 5-7
- Leyendo: Plato's Timaeus
- Vídeo: The Creation of the World
- Vídeo: The World Soul
- Vídeo: Plato's Mathematical Physics
- Vídeo: Conclusion to Part 1
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Discussion Question: Timaeus
- Leyendo: Credits
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Great Course, wonderful professor—highly recommend and I will be jumping on the second part of the this course soonest. Thank you for putting this togehter,.
I really enjoyed this course and learned so much from it. However the professor's monotone voice is reminiscent of too many professors I have had over the years that put me to sleep. I found it difficult to pay attention at times because of this even though I was very interested in the subject matter. She seems very knowledgeable about the subject, so perhaps taking a public speaking course would prove beneficial. Other than that I loved the course and am excited to take part two starting in a few days!
Short but well thought and coincide class for Plato and presocratics philosophy.
The lectures were excellent and very clear. The material was familiar to me but still very interesting. I could not be happier with the instructor's demeanour and competence. My only issue was with some of the questions in the quizzes. Being impatient, it was easy to be misdirected into thinking that the question was about one thing when it was about another. That is not a critique of the course because the problem was with my somewhat cavalier approach. Just keep in mind that if you take the course to pay as much attention as possible and to read every word and punctuation mark as it was intended.