Ancient Philosophy Reader
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This History of Ancient Philosophy Reader was developed as an Open Textbook (OER, Open Educational Resource) for use in a lower-level Philosophy course at Golden West College (a California Community College). It contains all of the important works with some background biographical information from Thales, through Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to some of the Hellenistic thinkers (see below for the full content). All of the works contain licenses that allow this work to be used and distributed freely and openly and may be printed (even for commercial purposes). Please contact the editor for comments, feedback, or suggestions. This work is effectively an anthology of free translations of the most important works of Ancient Western Philosophy. The Table of Contents is listed below:
UNIT ONE: THE START OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND THE PRE-SOCRATICS
1. Introduction to Philosophy and the Ship of Theseus
2. Greek Language, Religion, and Thales (the start of it all!)
3. Anaxagoras (Fragments)
4. Heraclitus (Fragments)
5. Parmenides and Zeno’s Paradoxes
6. Pythagoras
UNIT TWO: SOCRATES AND PLATO
7. Introduction to Plato and Socrates (Gorgias)
8. The Socratic Method and the Role of Philosophy (Apology and Allegory of the Cave)
9. The Nature of Things (Euthyphro)
10. Philosophy and Relativism (Theaetetus)
11. Methods of Analysis (Meno)
12. The Forms (Phaedo and Parmenides)
13. Metaphysics and Epistemology (The Republic, Book VII)
14. The Forms (The Republic, Book VI)
UNIT THREE: ARISTOTLE
15. The Role of Philosophy (Categories)
16. Aristotle’s Naturalism (Physics)
17. Aristotle’s Essentialism (Topics; Categories)
18. The Four Causes (Physics; Parts of Animals)
19. Aristotle’s Categories (Categories; De Interpretatione)
20. Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Metaphysics)
21. Aristotle's Ethics (Nicomachean Ethics)
UNIT FOUR: POST-SOCRATICS AND HELLENISTIC THOUGHT
22. Pyrrhonism
23. Epicurus
24. Epictetus
25. Philo of Alexandria
26. Clement of Alexandria
UNIT FIVE: OTHER PARTS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND PARALLELS TO THE WEST
27. Laozi (Tao Te Ching)
28. Confucius (Analects)
29. Hinduism (Bhagavad-Gita)
30. Buddhism (Lankavatara Sutra)
1. Introduction to Philosophy and the Ship of Theseus
2. Greek Language, Religion, and Thales (the start of it all!)
3. Anaxagoras (Fragments)
4. Heraclitus (Fragments)
5. Parmenides and Zeno’s Paradoxes
6. Pythagoras
UNIT TWO: SOCRATES AND PLATO
7. Introduction to Plato and Socrates (Gorgias)
8. The Socratic Method and the Role of Philosophy (Apology and Allegory of the Cave)
9. The Nature of Things (Euthyphro)
10. Philosophy and Relativism (Theaetetus)
11. Methods of Analysis (Meno)
12. The Forms (Phaedo and Parmenides)
13. Metaphysics and Epistemology (The Republic, Book VII)
14. The Forms (The Republic, Book VI)
UNIT THREE: ARISTOTLE
15. The Role of Philosophy (Categories)
16. Aristotle’s Naturalism (Physics)
17. Aristotle’s Essentialism (Topics; Categories)
18. The Four Causes (Physics; Parts of Animals)
19. Aristotle’s Categories (Categories; De Interpretatione)
20. Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Metaphysics)
21. Aristotle's Ethics (Nicomachean Ethics)
UNIT FOUR: POST-SOCRATICS AND HELLENISTIC THOUGHT
22. Pyrrhonism
23. Epicurus
24. Epictetus
25. Philo of Alexandria
26. Clement of Alexandria
UNIT FIVE: OTHER PARTS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND PARALLELS TO THE WEST
27. Laozi (Tao Te Ching)
28. Confucius (Analects)
29. Hinduism (Bhagavad-Gita)
30. Buddhism (Lankavatara Sutra)
Author: Noah Levin
Date Published: 2016-12-22T02:15:11.025633
Categories:
All/Humanities/Comparative Literature and Classics
All/Humanities/Philosophy
Languages: English
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