This course offers a broad survey of Ancient Philosophy. Topics include: happiness, beauty, virtue, fatalism, relativism, taoism, hedonism, skepticism, friendship, emotions, and tragedy.
Inwood and Gerson: Hellenistic Philosophy (IG)
Pre-Socratics
Heraclitus Fragments
Paremenides' Poem
Plato's Metaphysics
Symposium 209e-212a
Parmenides 126a-132b
Plato's Metaphysics II
Parmenides 132c-135d
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Metaphysics Book IV, 3-4
Aristotle's Metaphysics II
De Interpretatione 9
Cicero: On Fate §28-33 and §39-44 (IG 182-183 and 186-188)
Plato's Epistemology I
Theaetetus 142a-168c
Plato's Epistemology II
Theaetetus 168d-183c
Skepticism I
Aristocles: Peri Philosophias 758cd (IG 299-300)
Diogenes Laertius: Life of Pyrrho §61-69, §78-83 (IG 285-287, 289-290)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism §79-123 (IG 329-334), §145-163 (IG 336-7), §210-212 (IG 309), §216-219 (IG 310-11)
Skepticism II
Diogenes Laertius 7.1-30 (IG 103-106) and 7.42-48 (IG 111-112)
Cicero: Academica 1.40-42 (IG 124-125), 2.144-5 (IG 126)
Diogenes Laertius 4.28-44 (IG 261-262) and 4.62 (IG 263)
Cicero: Academica 2.28, 2.40-42, 2.59-60, 2. 66-67, 2.76-78, 2.95-96 (IG 267-271)
Skepticism III
Diogenes Laertius: Life of Pyrrho 9.102-108 (IG 295-297)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism 1.21-24 (IG 306-307)
Cicero: Academica 2.108 (IG 273); SextusL M 7.166-189 (IG 277-280); Cicero: Academica 2.99-105, 2.7-9 (IG 282-285)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism 1.220-235 (IG 311-314)
Taoist Epistemology
Zhuangzi (*)
Plato's Ethics I
Gorgias 447a-481b
Plato's Ethics II
Gorgias 481c-508a
Aristotle's Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1-9, Book III.6-9
Epicurean Ethics
Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus (IG 28-31)
Cicero: On Moral Ends, Book I §13-15, §23-61, §65-72
Epicurean Ethics II
Cicero: On Moral Ends, Book II (*)
Stoic Ethics
Epictetus: The Encheiridion §1-31
Seneca: "On the Resolute Nature of the Wise Man"
Skeptical Ethics
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism 3.179-182 (IG 390)
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists 11.110-167
Philosophy of Love
Plato: Phaedrus 249d-257b
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, Book IV, lines 1030-1191
Stoics on Emotions
Diogenes Laiertius: 7.110-118 (IG 197-199)
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations, Book IV §8-38, 58-84
Stoics on Emotions: Anger
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations, Book IV §39-61
Seneca: On Anger Book One, §7-9, 12-14, 17-18; Book Two § 1-4, 6-10, 28
Stoics on Emotions: Grief
Cicero: Tusculan Disputations, Book Three §1-8, 12-13, 22-46, 52-84
Plato's Philosophy of Art
Republic, Book X, 595a-608b
Aristotle's Philosophy of Art
Rhetoric II. 8
Poetics 4, 6-11, 13-14
Tragedy
Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus
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