UPenn - Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors
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- 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.
Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors at Coursera Curriculum
Aristotle?s Categories
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
Introduction to Aristotle
Subjects and Predicates
Universals and Particulars
Substance and Subject
Subjects of Change
Aristotle's Categories
Subjects and Predicates
Substances & Subjects
Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
Matter, Form, and Change
Nature
Is Form or Matter Nature?
The Four Causes
Natural Teleology
Soul As Cause
Aristotle's Physics
Aristotle's On the Soul
Change & Nature
Causes in Nature
Aristotelian Souls
Aristotle's Ethics
The Eternity of Motion
The First Mover of the Cosmos
The Unmoved Mover
The Goal of Life
What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Happiness and Living Well
Pleasure and the Human Function
Virtue of Character
Godlike Virtue
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle's Ethics
The Unmoved Mover
Aristotle's Ethics
Epicureanism
Introduction to Epicurus
Nature and the Gods
Therapeutic Philosophy
Death Is Nothing To Us
What's Wrong With Death?
Ataraxia
Restricting Desire
Enduring Pain
The Letter to Menoeceus
The Letter of Epicurus to Herodotus
On the nature of the gods
Principal Doctrines
Gods and Death
Pleasure and Pain
Stoicism
Introduction to Stoicism
God in Nature
Following Nature
A Good Flow of Life
The Goal vs. The Target
The Lazy Argument
What Is Up To Us
Stoic Compatibilism
Conclusion
The Enchiridion
On the nature of the gods
De Fato (On Fate)
De Finibus (On Ends)
Stoic Natural Philosophy and Ethics
Fate and Human Action
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