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Ancient Philosophy Reader
The term “history” is used in the context of Philosophy courses primarily means that a historical approach will be used to structure the course and guide examination, as opposed to, for example, a course structured around topical examinations. This book is primarily ordered in chronological or “historical” order first and is then topically organized within that historical context.
- Author
- Noah Levin
- Publisher
- Golden West College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-SA
- Language
- EN
Contents· 37 sections
- 01: The Start of Western Philosophy and the Pre-Socratics
- 1.01: Introduction to Philosophy and the Ship of Theseus
- 1.02: Greek Language Religion and Thales
- 1.03: Anaxagoras (Fragments)
- 1.04: Heraclitus (Fragments)
- 1.05: Parmenides and Zenos Paradoxes
- 1.06: Pythagoras
- 02: Socrates and Plato
- 2.00: Prelude to Socrates and Plato
- 2.01: Introduction to Plato and Socrates (Gorgias)
- 2.02: The Socratic Method and the Role of Philosophy (Apology and Allegory of the Cave)
- 2.03: The Nature of Things (Euthyphro)
- 2.04: Philosophy and Relativism (Theaetetus)
- 2.05: Methods of Analysis (Meno)
- 2.06: The Forms (Phaedo and Parmenides)
- 2.07: Metaphysics and Epistemology (The Republic Book VII)
- 2.08: The Forms (The Republic Book VI)
- 03: Aristotle
- 3.01: The Role of Philosophy (Categories)
- 3.02: Aristotles Naturalism (Physics)
- 3.03: Aristotles Essentialism (Topics Categories)
- 3.04: The Four Causes (Physics Parts of Animals)
- 3.05: Aristotles Categories (Categories De Interpretatione)
- 3.06: Aristotles Metaphysics (Metaphysics)
- 3.07: Aristotle's Ethics (Nicomachean Ethics)
- 04: Post-Socratics and Hellenistic Thought
- 4.00: Prelude
- 4.01: Pyrrhonism
- 4.02: Epicurus
- 4.03: Epictetus
- 4.04: Philo of Alexandria
- 4.05: Clement of Alexandria
- 05: Other Parts of the Ancient World and Parallels to the West
- 5.01: Laozi (Tao Te Ching)
- 5.02: Confucius (Analects)
- 5.03: Hinduism (Bhagavad-Gita)
- 5.04: Buddhism (Lankavatara Sutra)