PHI 1113 - Greek and Roman Philosophy

Credits: 4
What is reality, and how did the world come into being? What is the nature of knowledge and the human soul? What does it mean to live an ethical life? Western philosophy begins with the Greeks and Romans: a period of more than a thousand years in which core philosophical questions and concepts were developed. This course examines the major philosophers of this period: the Presocratics, Socrates, the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, and the founders of the Hellenistic schools (Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism) and Neoplatonism. The course focuses on primary source materials—the philosophical texts themselves—as well as on the historical and cultural context of Greek and Roman civilization within which philosophy took shape.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.