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UPenn - Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors
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Duration | 13 hours |
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Mode of learning | Online |
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Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors at Coursera Course details
- 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: Plato & His Predecessors at Coursera Curriculum
The Milesians & Heraclitus
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
How We Study the Pre-Socratics
Fragments and Sources
Philosophers or scientists?
The Material Principle
God in Nature?
Heraclitus on the LOGOS
Heraclitus on Change
Milesians Readings
Heraclitus Readings
Milesians
Heraclitus
Parmenides to Plato
Parmenides' Prohibition
Parmenides Against Change
Responses to Parmenides
Naturalism after Parmenides
Plato and Socrates
Socrates in the Apology
Piety in the Euthyphro
Morality and Religion
Parmenides
Plato's Apology
Plato's Euthyphro
Parmenides and His Legacy
Plato?s Apology and Euthyphro
Plato on Virtue, Teaching, & Justice
Virtue in the Meno
Teachers of Virtue?
Theory of Recollection
Was Socrates Teaching?
Meno's Paradox
Knowledge vs. True Belief
Is Justice a Virtue?
The Just City
The Just Soul
Rational Injustice?
Plato's Meno
Republic Book 1
Republic Book 2
Republic Book 4
Plato's Meno
Plato's Republic
Plato on Reality & Goodness
Plato's Theory of Forms
The Real and the Good
The Creation of the World
The World Soul
Plato's Mathematical Physics
Conclusion to Part 1
Republic Book 5
Republic Books 6-7
Plato's Timaeus
Credits
Republic Books 5-7
Plato's Timaeus
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