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PHI 301 Syllabus

Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers

Excerpt from Ancient Greek Philosophy

Supplementary Texts

Table of Contents

Schedule

Review Points for the Midterm

Midterm Review Narrative

Review Narrative: Euthyphro, Apology, and Protagoras

Review Narrative: Protagoras and Gorgias

Review Narrative: Meno, Phaedo, and Republic

Review Points for the Final Examination




Lecture Notes

Ancient Greek Philosophy:

From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers


Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION


PRESOCRATICS

THE MILESIAN REVOLUTION

Chapter 2.1. The Milesians Turn to Nature

Chapter 2.2. Parmenides

Chapter 2.3. A Defense of the Inquiry into Nature


SOCRATES

THE GOOD LIFE

Chapter 3.1. Definitions

Chapter 3.2. The Love of Wisdom

Chapter 3.3. Intellectualism


SOCRATES AGAINST THE SOPHISTS

Chapter 4.1 The Sophists

Chapter 4.2. The Sophists Sell Teachings for the Soul

Chapter 4.3. Rhetoric is Blind to the Good


PLATO

THREE PLATONIC THEORIES

Chapter 5.1. The Theory of Recollection

Chapter 5.2. The Theory of Forms

Chapter 5.3 The Tripartite Theory of the Soul


JUSTICE AND ITS REWARD

Chapter 6.1. The Opening Conversation

Chapter 6.2. Justice

Chapter 6.3. The Just Life is Better


ARISTOTLE

SECOND PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 7.1. Natural Bodies and their Specific Behaviors

Chapter 7.2. Natures are Forms

Chapter 7.3. Teleology in Nature


PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 8.1. The Soul is the Form of the Body

Chapter 8.2. Induction

Chapter 8.3. Becoming like the Unmovable First Mover


FIRST PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 9.1. The Science of Being

Chapter 9.2. Forms in Matter are Substances

Chapter 9.3. No Universal is Substance


ETHICS

Chapter 10.1. The Function Argument

Chapter 10.2. Theoretical Wisdom

Chapter 10.3. Practical Wisdom


THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHERS

Chapter 11.1 Epicurus and Epicureanism

Chapter 11.2. The Stoics

Chapter 11.3. The Academic Skeptics



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Links in the Lecture Notes

The Platonic Dialogues

Scholarly Works on the Presocratics

The "First" Philosopher

Reductio Ad Absurdum

The School of Athens, Plato

The School of Athens, Aristotle

Trouble with Socrates' "What is it?" Question

Michael Frede Bibliography

"Contemplation" (θεωρία)

The Aristotelian Corpus




Perseus Digital Library

Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Phaedo, Laches, Hippias Major, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, Republic, Parmenides, Timaeus.

Aristotle: Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics.




MIT Classical Library

Aristotle: Categories, Posterior Analytics, Physics, On the Soul.