Beginning with an overview of his logic, scientific method, and cognitive science, we will proceed to examine the principles of his natural philosophy, including, cosmology, biology, and psychology, as well as his explanations of sensing, thinking, dreaming, and self-motion. This course offers a broad survey of the philosophy of Aristotle (384-322 BC). PHILOSOPHY 101: ARISTOTLE (Syllabus in PDF) We will read some of their ethical and political writings in order to get an idea of both the range of ethical theories of the period, as well as the approach to some more concrete ethical problems, such as the value of pleasure and virtue, the importance of wealth and power, the control of emotion, and the possibility of tranquility and happiness. The works of the founders of the greatest schools of Hellenistic philosophy, including the Epicureans and the Stoics, have been lost, but their ideas survive in the works of later writers, among them the famous Roman politicians Cicero and Seneca. PHILOSOPHY 102: HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY (Syllabus in PDF) Both groups may be taken for credit or audited by anyone with elementary reading ability in the relevant language (i.e. GREEK AND LATIN PHILOSOPHY READING GROUPS ( LINK to mailing list)ĭuring 2016-2017 we are reading Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Famous Philosophers, Book VI, chapter 2 (on the Cynic Diogenes of Sinope), and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy I.
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