PHI 201: History of Ancient Philosophy

SYLLABUS:

• PHI 201 History of Ancient Philosophy -- Available NOW!!

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE:

• PHI 201, SPRING 2024 - MW 10:30 - 11:45 a.m. (Section 29238) -- Available NOW!!

COURSE MATERIAL:

• Lecture 1: Philosophy; Homer, Hesiod, and Their Societies (Ch. 2)

• Lecture 2: Archaic Greece (Ch. 3)

• Lecture 3: Sparta (Ch. 4), & The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars (Ch. 5)

• Lecture 4: The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Athenian Democracy (Ch. 6)

• Lecture 5: Greece on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War (Ch. 7)

• Lecture 6: The Peloponnesian War (Ch. 8)

ARTICLE SUMMARY GUIDELINES:

• PHI 201 Passage(s) Summary Guidelines

• This is a template of how to write the first Article Summaries for Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES AND EXAMPLES:

• General Guidelines on the Elements of a Presentation for PHI 201

• PHI 201, 1st Example of Presentation: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes

• PHI 201, 2nd Example of Presentation: Pythagoras and Xenophanes

PAPER ASSIGNMENTS (and ABBREVIATION GUIDE FOR GRADING):

• First Paper Assignment -- Available when Dr. Y announces in class.

• Second Paper Assignment -- Available when Dr. Y announces in class.

• Third Paper Assignment -- Available NOW!!

• Grading Legend -- Explanations for the abbreviations on your graded papers

ADVICE ON WRITING PAPERS:

• Writing Philosophy 201 Papers

• Dr. Y's Good Paper Sample

• Dr. Y's Bad Paper Sample

• Dr. Y's Grammar Corner

• Dr. Y's Example of a Poor Introduction to your Paper (and why it is poor)

• Dr. Y's Checklist for Philosophy Papers

OPTIONAL COURSE MATERIAL (Only Look at and/or Print This Stuff If You're Interested in It):

• Why Philosophy is Valuable, Getting a Career in Philosophy, Philosophy Major Salaries, and otherwise Intelligent People Who Bash (or Have Bashed) Philosophy and/or Philosophers

• Dr. Y's "The Importance of Philosophy: Why does philosophy matter? Why bother with it?"

• Dr. Y's List of Fallacies -- A whole bunch of fallacies: Don't commit these and point them out when others do!

• Why Are There So Few Female Philosophers in my PHI 201 Textbook? (This was written for PHI 101, but is still rather relevant here)

• History of Ancient Greece (Cool site!)

• Mythology Guide (just in case!)

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (excellent source)

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (excellent source)

• Ancient Texts (Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, Homer, Hesiod, Thucydides, Xenophon, not to mention Plato and Aristotle, among many others!)

• Ancient Philosophers' Dates, Time Periods, and Regions (Dr. Y's, homemade)

• Heraclitus (The Complete Fragments, in Greek and English)

• Parmenides: On Nature (Two English translations and a German translation; much better than the translation in our book!)

• Zeno's Paradoxes (From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; includes contemporary responses to Zeno's paradoxes)

• A picture of the scene at Socrates' Death, as imagined by Jacques-Louis David in 1787

• Optional Plato Material

• Plato: "Knowledge Versus Opinion" Chart

• Plato: Sun Simile and Divided Line Chart

• A Detailed Chart of Plato's Cave Allegory

• Optional Aristotle Material

• Aristotle: "Individual Substance" (Primary and Secondary Substances) Chart

• Aristotle: "Demonstrative Knowledge" Chart

• Aristotle: Third Largeness Chart

• Aristotle: Arguments from the Sciences (for Plato's Forms)

• Aristotle: "Soul and Body, Mind and Matter" (his view of the soul) Chart

• Sculpture of Plato and Aristotle Discussing (Marble panel)

• Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines (Complete)

• Epicurus Desire Chart

• List of Roman Emperors and Philosophers

• Epictetus: The Enchiridion (Complete)

• Sextus Empiricus Bonus Material: The Ten Modes and Five Modes of Skepticism

• Plotinus: The Enneads (Complete)

• Optional Extra Credit Assignment -- Available NOW!!