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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Philosophy
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Naly Thaler
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 14-15
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Naly Thaler
Course/Module description:
The course will cover the development of Greek philosophy from its inception to the fourth century BC.
Course/Module aims:
The objective of the course is to introduce students to the main themes in Greek philosophy from the pre-Socratics through Plato and Aristotle.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Understand the main ideas in the sphere of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics.
Deal independently with the relevant ancient texts.
Identify in the texts the themes we will discuss in class.
Analyze the various arguments in the ancient texts.
Relate to each other the ideas of the different philosophers we will discuss in class.
Attendance requirements(%):
80 during sections
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture+section
Course/Module Content:
Presocratics:
Thales
Anaximander
Xenophanes
Parmenides
Democritus
The Sophists
Plato:
Apology
Gorgias
Phaedo
Republic
Aristotle:
Physics
On the Soul
Nicomachean Ethics
Required Reading:
Freeman, K., Ancilla to the pre-Socratic Philosophers, a complete translation of the fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Cambridge, 1983.
Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. Cooper, Hackett, 1997
The Complete Works of Aristotle, ed, J. Barnes, Oxford, 1984
Additional Reading Material:
Barns, J., The Presocratic Philosophers, Routledge, 2002.
Guthrie, W.K.C., History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 1-2, Cambridge, 1962, 1965.
Kirk, G.S., Raven, J.E., Schofield, M. The Presocratic Philosophers, Cambridge, 1984.
The Sophists
Guthrie, W.K.C., The Sophists, Cambridge, 1969.
Kerferd, G., The Sophistic Movement, Cambridge, 1981.
Sprague, R. K., The Older Sophists, South Carolina Press, 1972.
Plato
Guthrie, W. K. C., History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 4-5, Cambridge, 1975, 1978.
Irwin, T., Plato’s Ethics, Oxford, 1995.
Kraut, Richard (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge, 1992.
Vlastos, Gregory, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, Cambridge, 1991.
White, Nicholas P., Plato on Knowledge and Reality, Hackett, 1976.
Aristotle
Guthrie, W. K. C., History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 6, Cambridge, 1981.
Lear, J., Aristotle: The Desire to Understand, Cambridge, 1988.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 100 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
none
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