Philosophy Syllabus

1^st 6 Weeks

Preface: Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy

Introduction:                     “

Bk 1  ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Part I

The Pre-Socratics

The Rise of Greek Civilization

The Milesian School

Pythagoras

Heraclitus

Pannenides

Empedocles

Athens in Relation to Culture

Anaxagoras

The Atomists

Protagoras

Part 2

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Socrates

The Influence of Sparta

The Sources of Plato's Opinions

Plato's Utopia

The Theory of Ideas

Plato's Theory of Immortality

Plato's Cosmogony

Knowledge and Perception in Plato

Aristotle's Metaphysics

Aristotle's Ethics

Aristotle's Politics

Aristotle's Logic

Aristotle's Physics

Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy

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Part 3

Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle

The Hellenistic World

Cynics and Skeptics

The Epicureans

Stoicism

The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture

Plotinus

Bk 2  CATHOLIC/Scholastic PHILOSOPHY

Introduction  

Part I          The Fathers

I The Religious Development of the Jews   

II Christianity During the First Four Centuries  

III Three Doctors of the Church  

IV St. Augustine's Philosophy and Theology   

V The Fifth and Sixth Centuries   

VI St. Benedict and Gregory the Great   

Part 2         The Schoolmen

VII The Papacy in the Dark Ages   

VIII John the Scot   

IX Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century  

X Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy   

XI The Twelfth Century   

XII The Thirteenth Century   

XIII St. Thomas Aquinas  

XIV Franciscan Schoolmen   

XV The Eclipse of the Papacy   

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Bk 3  MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Part I

I General Characteristics   

11 The Italian Renaissance   

III Machiavelli   

IV Erasmus and More  

V The Reformation and Counter-Reformation  

VI The Rise of Science   

VII Francis Bacon   

VIII Hobbce's Leviathan  

IX Descartes   

X Spinoza   

XI Leibniz

XIII Locke's Theory of Knowledge   

XIV Locke's Political Philosophy  

XV Locke's Influence  

XVI Berkeley  

XVII Hume    

Part 2

From Rousseau to the Present Day

XVIII The Romantic Movement 701

XIX Rousseau  

XX Kant  

XXI Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century   

XXII Hegel   

XXIII Byron  

XXIV Schopenhauer   

XXV Nietzsche  

XXVI The Utilitarians   

XXVII Karl Marx   

XXVIII Bergson  

XXIX William James  

XXX JohnDewey   

XXXI The Philosophy of Logical Analysis