Index for PHIL-3060

History of Ancient Philosophy

Dr. Ari Santas

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Valdosta State University

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Syllabus and Schedule

3060f12 Syllabus

Presentation and Reading Schedule

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Abstract Form

Student Writing Sample (for term paper)

Sample Abstract/Bibliography (from Fall 12--a good example of what to submit initially in the assignment)

Malone Paper (from PHIL-3080 Early Modern Class--on Hobbes' Leviathan and US Government)

Online Student Evaluations

Instructions for Online Student Evaluations

Writing Assignments

Assignment 1 Plato and the Presocratics

Assignment 2 Plato

Assignment 3 Aristotle

Assignment 4 Hellenistics

Supplemental Online Materials and Texts

Santas' Philosophy Guidelines

General

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Site Index (can look up many authors alphabetically)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Site Index (can search authors by name or subject)

Early Greek Philosophers

Pre-Socratics

John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy

Wikipedia site: Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entries:

Thales	Pythagoras	Parmenides	Empedocles
Anaximander	Xenophanes	Zeno's Paradoxes	Anaxagoras
Anaximenes	Heraclitus		Democritus

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entries on Presocratic Philosophy

On Presocratic Philosophy
Pythagoras	Parmenides	Empedocles
Xenophanes	Zeno of Elea	Anaxagoras
Heraclitus		Democritus

The Sophists

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on The Sophists

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on The Sophists

entry on Protagoras

entry on Critias

entry on Gorgias

Socrates

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Socrates

Plato

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy General Entry on Plato

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Plato

Diagram of Divided Line from Republic, Bk. VI

Aristotle

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy General Entry on Aristotle

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Aristotle

Stanford Article on Aristotle on Causality (for Physics and Metaphysics)

Stanford Article on Aristotle's Psychology (for de Anima)

Stanford Article on Aristotle's Ethics

Stanford Article on Aristotle's Politics

Hellenistic (later Greek and Roman)

Stoicism (A Good Life is one of Reason and Self-Control: Living in Accord with Nature)

Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Stoicism

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) entry on Stoicism

IEP entry on Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)

Full text of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Seneca (4 BC- AD 65)

BBC Video on Seneca on Anger Part I; Part II; Part III

Full text of Epictetus' Enchiridion

Hedonism (A Good Life is one of Satisfying “Higher” Pleasures)

Epicurus (341-270 BC)

Text of Letter to Menoeceus

Chinese

General

Chad Hansen's Chinese Phil. Site http://www.hku.hk/philodep/ch/index.html

Confucius

Internet Ency. of Phil. Site http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/confuciu.htm

Lao Tzu

Internet Ency. of Phil. Site http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/laozi.htm

Zhuangzi

Internet Ency. of Phil. Site http://www.iep.utm.edu/z/zhuangzi.htm

Santas' Supplemental Notes and Writings

Plato

Santas Notes Plato Background
Santas Notes Apology	Santas Notes Crito
Santas Notes Euthyphro	Santas Notes Allegory of the Cave

Aristotle

Santas Notes Aristotle Background	Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk I
Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk II	Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk III
Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk IV	Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk VI
Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk VII	Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bks VIII & IX
Santas Notes Aristotle and the Good Life	Santas Notes Nic. Ethics, Bk X

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Requirements

Final Project Abstract Form

Online Student Evaluations

Instructions for Online Student Evaluations