PHILOSOPHY 320

REQUIRED READINGS

Students are required to read relevant material from the following websites as we progress through the course.   There are no paper textbooks:

Ancient, Hellenistic, Muslim, and Medieval Philosophy:  Historical background:

http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hop.htm

(1)  Pre-Socratics:  http://www.wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/templates/stripped_features/works.html

(2)  Plato’s works:  http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html

(3)  Plato’s Republic with commentary:  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/3963/books/republic.htm

(4)  Links to commentaries on Plato:

http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~witt/plato%27s_republic.htm

(5)  Aristotle on knowledge and causation:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/ and http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2n.htm

(6)  Aristotle on the nature of reality:  http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/2p.htm

(7)  Aristotle’s philosophy of nature:  http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm

(8)  Aristotle’s view of soul and psychology: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-psychology/  and http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm

(9)  Aristotle’s view on politics:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/

(10) Aristotle’s ethics:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/

(11)  Aristotle’s works, trans. W. D. Ross:  http://graduate.gradsch.uga.edu/archive/Aristotle.html

(12) Epicureanism:  http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hop.htm (esp. “Letter to Menoeceus”)

(13) Stoicism:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/ and http://www.san.beck.org/Epictetus.html (esp. “Enchiridion”)

(14) Skepticism:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/

(15) Neo-Platonism:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/

(16) St. Augustine:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

(17) Early Scholastics:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anselm/ and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottus-eriugena/ and http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/abelard.htm

(18) Muslim philosophers:  Averroës, http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ir/ ; Avicenna, http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/ ; al-Farabi, http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/farabi/

(19) St. Thomas Aquinas:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/

(20) Later Scholastics:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/duns-scotus/ and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham/