Classical Philosophy
- Course Code
- PHIL 0010 / CLAS 0010
- Course Type
- Tutorials
- Subject Credit
- Course Availability
This course charts the development of classical western philosophy from the Athenians to Augustine of Hippo, exploring the principal writers in their intellectual and historical context. At the core of this course is reading key works in translation. The cornerstones of the western intellectual tradition are scrutinised in terms of the specific questions they address, and read as part of a continuing narrative in philosophical culture.
Sample Topics:
- Plato, Republic, Symposium
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics
- Plotinus, Enneads
- Proclus, Elements of Theology
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Lucretius, De rerum natura
- Augustine, Confessions, City of God