Plato and Aristotle : the genesis of Western thought
Alternate Title: Plato & Aristotle
Summary: Haverford College professor Aryeh Kosman delivers a course that will investigate the philosophical texts of Plato and Aristotle. Far from simply making a list of their ideas, however, in each lecture we will focus on thinking through the premises they put forth. In the end, our go will be to arrive at a solid understanding of the thought revolution provoked by the ideas of Plato and Aristotle and how their legacies continue to influence us to this very day.
Contents:
- Plato (with nods to Socrates)
- The Euthyphro : the virtue of holiness
- The Charmides : the virture of quiet self-control
- The Republic : Justice and the phliosopher king
- The Symposium : is the philosopher capable of love?
- The Phaedo : death and the philosopher
- Aristotle : patience with complexity
- The Organon : substance as the primary mode of being
- The Metaphysics : what is philosophy?
- Biology and On the soul : life and consciousness
- The Nicomachean ethics : ethics and the good life
- Plato and Aristotle : the politics and the poetics
- Plato and Aristotle : a final review and summation.
Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md.
, [Prince Frederick, Md.]
, Recorded Books
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Language(s): English
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Abstract
Haverford College professor Aryeh Kosman delivers a course that will investigate the philosophical texts of Plato and Aristotle. Far from simply making a list of their ideas, however, in each lecture we will focus on thinking through the premises they put forth. In the end, our go will be to arrive at a solid understanding of the thought revolution provoked by the ideas of Plato and Aristotle and how their legacies continue to influence us to this very day.
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