Philosophy 320
History of Ancient Philosophy

University of Washington

Lecture Schedule

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  1. Introduction to the Presocratics; Thales
  2. Anaximander
  3. Anaximenes
  4. Heraclitus
  5. Heraclitus (cont'd.)
  6. Parmenides: Stage 1
  7. Parmenides: Stage 2
  8. Zeno’s Paradoxes: The Race Course
  9. Zeno’s Paradoxes: Plurality
  10. Zeno: Race course, conclusion; Zeno’s Paradoxes: The Arrow
  11. Empedocles
  12. Anaxagoras
  13. Atomism
  14. MID-TERM EXAM
  15. Socrates and Plato: Introduction
  16. Plato’s Euthyphro and Meno: Socratic Definitions
  17. Plato: Meno’s Paradox, Doctrine of Recollection
  18. Plato: Theory of Forms; Plato’s Phaedo: Argument from imperfection
  19. Plato’s Republic: Argument from knowledge
  20. Plato’s Republic: One-Over-Many argument; Allegory of the Cave
  21. Plato’s Parmenides: Dilemma of Participation
  22. Plato’s Parmenides: Third Man argument
  23. Plato’s Timaeus: Cosmology
  24. Aristotle’s Categories: Theory of Predication
  25. Aristotle’s Categories: Response to Dilemma of Participation
  26. Aristotle’s Physics: Change
  27. Aristotle’s Physics: the Four Causes, from Physics to Metaphysics
  28. Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Bks. 7 & 8: Matter, Form and Substance
  29. Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Bks. 7 & 8 (cont'd.)
  30. Aristotle’s De Anima: On the Soul
  31. FINAL EXAM

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