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  • Descriptor Title
    History of Ancient Philosophy
  • C-ID Number
    130
  • Units
    3.0
  • Date of Last Revision
    10/12/2017 11:43:51 PM GMT+0000

General Description

This course addresses ancient philosophy with emphasis on the development of Greek philosophy from the Pre-Socratics through Aristotle and may also include Hellenistic, Roman, medieval or non-western thinkers.

Prerequisites

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Corequisites

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Advisories

Eligibility for College Composition (C-ID ENGL 100)

Content

Presocratic Thinkers
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Reading Ancient Primary Texts Critically

Lab Activities

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Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

  1. Employ critical philosophical skills
  2. Explicate philosophical texts of the ancient past
  3. Analyze primary theories and standpoints with special emphasis on Plato’s and Aristotle
  4. Critically analyze and evaluate arguments, assumptions, principles, and methods of the philosophers under consideration

Evaluation Methods

Formal essays and research papers
Quizzes and exams.

Textbooks

Reading materials must include strong representation of primary texts:

Kauffman& Baird, Ancient Philosophy, Prentiss Hall

Matson, Wallace, A New History of Philosophy

A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia,  Patricia Curd, ed.,

Plato, Apology

Plato, Crito

Plato, Phaedo

Plato, Euthypro

Plato, The Republic

Plato, Theaetetus,

Plato, Meno

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle, Metaphysics

Lucretius, The Way Things Are

Selections from primary sources (Open Educational Resources)

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  • Keywords

    History, philosophy, plato, aristotle

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