Track List

 

What is Philosophy?

Key concepts:  Metaphysics • Ethics • Virtue Ethics • Utilitarianism • Deontological • Epistemology • Aesthetics • Logic • Truth

Pre-Socratics

Key Concepts: Arche • Thales • Anaxagoras • Anaximander • Anaximenes • Mythos • 4 Elements • Nous • Logos • Heraclitus • Pythagoras • Reincarnation • Xenophanes • Democritus • The Pluralists

Socrates

Key Concepts: Sophists • Universal Definitions • Socratic Method • Soul • Virtue Ethics • Courage • Justice • Practical Wisdom • Temperance • Akrasia • Trial/Death

Plato: Metaphysics and Epistemology

Key Concepts: Being • Becoming • Space • Time • The Academy • Divided Line • Theory of the Forms • The Good • Universals • Particulars • Demiurge • The Receptacle • Geometry/Mathematical Objects • The Immortal Soul • Allegory of the Cave

Plato: Ethics

Key Concepts: Tripartite Soul • Happiness • Unity of the Virtues•  Education • Good • Evil • Politics • Artisans • Auxiliaries • Philosopher Kings • Government • Democracy • Meritocracy

Aristotle: Metaphysics and Ethics

Key Concepts: Alexander the Great • 4 Causes: Formal, Efficient, Material, Final • Hylomorphism • God • Unmoved Mover • Non-Contingent Entities • Arguments for the Existence of God • The Golden Mean • 3 Forms of Friendship 

Medieval: Augustine to Aquinas

Key Concepts: Dark Ages • Renaissance • Problem of Evil • Neo-Platonism • Being and Non-Being • Theodicy • Free Will • Sin • Fides Quaerens • Intellectum • Credo ut Intelligam • The Five Ways • Apophatic Theology • Maimonides' 13 Principles of Faith