Major · Philosophy · Semester 4 · SY BA · 4 credits
Module 1: Pre-Socratics and sophists
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1
Natural philosophers: Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes
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2
problem of change: Parmenides and Heraclites
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3
Pluralists: Democritus, Sophists: Epistemology and ethics (Protagoras)
Module 2: Socrates and Plato
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1
Socratic Method, Socratic definition
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2
Plato’s theory of knowledge (Simile of Divided Line and Allegory of cave)
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3
Criticisms against sense perception, Characteristics of Forms/Ideas
Module 3: Aristotle and Post-Aristotle
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1
Aristotle’s theory of Causation (reference to the notion of teleology), Form and Matter; actuality and potentiality
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2
Stoicism: Epictetus
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3
Skepticism: Sextus Empiricus
Module 4: Medieval Philosophy
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1
Thomas Aquinas (Relationship between reason and faith)
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2
Moses Maimonides (Philosophy and Theology)
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3
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Islamic Philosophy
References
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Annas, Julia. Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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Barnes, Jonathan. Early Greek Philosophy,(Penguin; Revised edition 2002)
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Elrouayheb K, SChmidtke S, Oxford handbook of Islamic Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2017
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G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers. (Cambridge University Press, 1957)
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Grube, G. M. Plato’s Thought (London: Methuen, 1935)
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Guthrie, W. K. C. 1962, 1965, 1969, A History of Greek Philosophy, Vols. I, II, and III,
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IV, V, VI (Cambridge University Press. 1962, 1965, 1969)
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Jones, W.T. A History of Western Philosophy: The Medieval Mind (Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1969)
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Michael Marmura, Etienne Gilson. 'Al Ghazali, The incoherence of the Philosophers'( University of Chicago Press 1998)
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Osborne, Catherine. 2004 Pre-Socratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2004)
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Stace, W.T. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy (Macmillan, 1985, 1992)
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Stumpf, S.E. & Fieser, J. Philosophy: History and Problems (McGraw-Hill, 1971)
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Walsh, Martin A History of Philosophy (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1985)
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Frederick Copleston A History of Philosophy (volumes 1, 2, 3) Image 1993
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D.J. O’Connor Critical History of Western Philosophy Free Press, 1985
