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1. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY (SUMMER SESSION)
06/03 The Philosopher
Philosophy and Wonder
06/04 Mythology and Philosophy: The Birth of the Philosopher
Week
One
06/05 ON-LINE SESSION
LECTURES: Presocratics, The Birth of Greek Philosophy
06/06 ON-LINE SESSION
LECTURES: The Origin of the Universe I - The Milesians:
Thales, Anaximander
06/10 ON-LINE SESSION
VIDEO: THE GREEK GODS
LECTURE: What is Knowledge? I – Xenophanes
Week
Two
06/11 Mythology and Philosophy: A Philosophical Revolution
The Origin of the Universe II - The Milesians: Anaximenes
Revision Session
06/12 How to Reach the Truth? – Parmenides
1° TEST
06/13 What is Being? – Parmenides
What is Change? – Heraclitus
06/17 ON-LINE SESSION
LECTURE: What is Knowledge? II – Heraclitus
Week
Three
06/18 The Sophistic Movement: Who were the Sophists?; The Sophistic
Education
Revision
06/19 The Sophists: Relativism
2° TEST
06/20 ON-LINE SESSION
VIDEO: ENGENEERING AN EMPIRE
LECTURE: The Sophists: Double Arguments
06/24 ON-LINE SESSION
LECTURES: The Life of Socrates; Socrates
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Week
Four
06/25 The Sophists: Religion
The Sophists: Language and Persuasion
Revision Session
06/26 3° TEST
In line with the mission statement of Queens College and of the goals of the Philosophy
Department this course is designed to guide the students to achieve the following learning
objectives:
1. Recognize the main problems discussed by the philosophers studied in the course
2. Identify how a philosopher is related to his predecessors
2. 3. Describe the historical and intellectual context in which a philosopher developed
4. List the main sources through which the thought of a philosophical school/thinker has
come to us
5. Describe the impact of a philosophical school/thinker on the society in which its/his
theories have been developed
6. Be able to comment on an Ancient text by (i) placing it in its historical context and (ii)
recognizing the structure of its arguments
3) Course Materials: The following texts are required; it is not possible to take this course
without these books:
1
1. Wheelwright P., The Presocratics, (Prentice Hall, 1966)
2. Dillon J., The Greek Sophists, (Penguin Classics, 2003)
4) Course Work: The final grade will be determined by the student’s performance in the
following: in-class tests, on-line assignments, and class participation. The grade break down
will be as follows: 1) 3 in-class tests = 75% of the final grade (25% each); 2) 5 on-line
assignments = 20% of the final grade (5% each); 3) class participation = 5% of the final
grade. Please be aware that merely attending class and reading the on-line forum do
not constitute class participation. For more information concerning class and on-line
forum participation see point 7.