PHIL 2113 - Greek Philosophy

This course is an introduction to great thinkers of Ancient Greece, including some of the Pre-Socratics (Parmenides and Heraclitus), Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and, an introduction to the Stoics. The class will engage fundamental questions, such as: Is anything stable and permanent, or is reality always changing? What are poetry/myth, philosophy, and logos? What is justice? What is virtue, and can it be taught? What are being and non-being? Expected outcomes for this course include: strengthening student familiarity with the history of ideas; opening the possibility of formalizing our naive (and very often effective) capacities to make an argument by deliberately putting into practice some of the methods and principles of classical rhetoric; developing our natural capacities to read and understand conceptually complex texts.

Credit Hours
3.0
Satisfies a Requirement
Humanities
Area
V
When Offered
Fall

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PHIL 2113 - Greek Philosophy