Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors

Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - The Milesians & Heraclitus
    Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes and Xenophanes seek the material principle of the cosmos, and arrive at a radical new conception of the gods. Heraclitus distills the essence of their “naturalism” in his riddling slogans.
  • Week 2 - Parmenides to Plato
    Parmenides poses a fundamental philosophical challenge to all naturalistic inquiry when he denies the intelligibility of change. Later naturalists (Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus) respond to his challenge. Plato’s portrait of Socrates raises question...
  • Week 3 - Plato on Virtue, Teaching, & Justice
    What is virtue, and how can it be taught? What is teaching anyway, and how could we ever acquire knowledge? Socrates gives a geometry lesson purporting to show that learning is recollection. Why should we act justly? What’s in it for us? An elaborate ana...
  • Week 4 - Plato on Reality & Goodness
    The ultimate realities are intelligible Forms, while the world of our experience is only an image of that reality. Goodness is a fundamental feature of the world. Plato’s cosmology: the creation of the universe (complete with a world soul) and the principles...

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Instructors

Susan Sauvé Meyer
Professor
Department of Philosophy

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