Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors
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Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors
University of Pennsylvania
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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.
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Раздел
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.
8 видео (всего 53 мин.), 2 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 2 тестов
8 видео
How We Study the Pre-Socratics4мин
Fragments and Sources4мин
Philosophers or scientists?7мин
The Material Principle5мин
God in Nature?5мин
Heraclitus on the LOGOS10мин
Heraclitus on Change5мин
2 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Milesians Readings10мин
Heraclitus Readings10мин
2 практического упражнения
Milesians16мин
Heraclitus10мин
2
Раздел
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 questions about the nature of philosophy, its role in public life, and the relation between morality and religion.
8 видео (всего 61 мин.), 3 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 2 тестов
8 видео
Parmenides Against Change7мин
Responses to Parmenides7мин
Naturalism after Parmenides9мин
Plato and Socrates6мин
Socrates in the Apology6мин
Piety in the Euthyphro7мин
Morality and Religion5мин
3 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Parmenides10мин
Plato's Apology10мин
Plato's Euthyphro10мин
2 практического упражнения
Parmenides and His Legacy10мин
Plato’s Apology and Euthyphro10мин
3
Раздел
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 analogy between a city and a human soul seeks to convince us that crime never pays, even if the criminal can escape detection.
10 видео (всего 74 мин.), 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 2 тестов
10 видео
Teachers of Virtue?6мин
Theory of Recollection8мин
Was Socrates Teaching?7мин
Meno's Paradox7мин
Knowledge vs. True Belief8мин
Is Justice a Virtue?10мин
The Just City5мин
The Just Soul9мин
Rational Injustice?6мин
4 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Plato's Meno10мин
Republic Book 110мин
Republic Book 210мин
Republic Book 410мин
2 практического упражнения
Plato's Meno10мин
Plato's Republic10мин
4
Раздел
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 of mathematical perfection that structure it at every level.
6 видео (всего 58 мин.), 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 3 тестов
6 видео
The Real and the Good8мин
The Creation of the World6мин
The World Soul12мин
Plato's Mathematical Physics13мин
Conclusion to Part 16мин
4 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Republic Book 510мин
Republic Books 6-710мин
Plato's Timaeus10мин
Credits10мин
2 практического упражнения
Republic Books 5-710мин
Plato's Timaeus14мин
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автор: LL•Mar 9th 2016
Good intro to early Greek philosophy. Dr Meyer has a simple and subtly humorous approach to the material. Dr Meyer makes the subject approachable so that the student wants to do further reading.
автор: AH•Mar 17th 2016
Highly recommended. This course was a great guide to understand to pre socratic philosophers. Professor Susan Sauvé Meyer is very clear in her explanations. Thanks a lot. I enjoy the course.
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Susan Sauvé Meyer
ProfessorDepartment of Philosophy
О University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.
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