Material for PHL 101 Philosophical Foundations of Western Thought
In-class writings, group work, and some related links
Notes & Information on extra-credit assignments(More recent notes occur
earlier in list)
Some Descartes
notes
Saadia ben Joseph Al-Fayyumi
(892-942)
Some Aquinas
Notes
Some notes
on Anselm (1033-1109)
Some
notes on St. Augustine
Some notes
on some varieties of Judaism and Christianity
Sceptics and
Stoics - Notes for class on Epictetus readings
Some notes on
Epicurus (341-271 BCE)
Some
introductory notes on Aristotle's ethics
Some More
Notes on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Some
notes on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle
1 - Some notes on the Categories and Physics
Some more notes
on the Republic
Notes on
Crito and Republic . . .
For the extra credit assignment comparing Dr. King's approach to that
of Socrates in the Crito:
Letter
from a Birmingham Jail [Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]
For the extra-credit comparing the role of face in the movie The
47 Ronin to that in Socrates' Athens, the film is available on DVD
and VHS from some of the major on-line vendors; if you find it in a local
video rental store, please let me know which one by leaving a message at
4489, or by email to Email: kagan@maple.lemoyne.edu.
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