Philosophy 320
History of Ancient Philosophy
Winter, 2001

Approximate Schedule

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Monday 1/1 HOLIDAY	Wednesday 1/3 Introduction to the Presocratics Thales	Friday 1/5 Anaximander and Anaximenes
Monday 1/8 Heraclitus	Wednesday 1/10 Heraclitus	Friday 1/12 Parmenides: Stage 1
Monday 1/15 HOLIDAY	Wednesday 1/17 Parmenides: Stage 2	Friday 1/19 Zeno: the race course
Monday 1/22 Zeno: plurality	Wednesday 1/24 Zeno: race course, conclusion; Zeno: Paradox of the Arrow	Friday 1/26 Empedocles
Monday 1/29 Anaxagoras	Wednesday 1/31 Atomism	Friday 2/2 MID-TERM EXAM
Monday 2/5 Plato's Euthyphro and Meno: Socratic Definitions	Wednesday 2/7 Plato: Meno's Paradox, Doctrine of Recollection	Friday 2/9 Plato's Phaedo: Theory of Forms, Argument from imperfection
Monday 2/12 Plato's Republic: Argument from knowledge	Wednesday 2/14 Plato's Republic: One-Over-Many Argument	Friday 2/16 Plato's Parmenides: Dilemma of Participation
Monday 2/19 HOLIDAY	Wednesday 2/21 Plato's Parmenides: Third Man Argument	Friday 2/23 Third Man Argument (conlcuded); Plato's Timaeus: Cosmology
Monday 2/26 Aristotle's Categories: Theory of Predication	Wednesday 2/28 Aristotle's Categories: Response to Dilemma of Participation	Friday 3/2 Aristotle's Physics: Change
Monday 3/5 Aristotle's Physics: the Four Causes, from Physics to Metaphysics	Wednesday 3/7 Aristotle's Metaphysics, Bks. 7 & 8: Matter, Form and Substance	Friday 3/9 Aristotle's De Anima: On the Soul
Monday 3/12 FINAL EXAM 2:30-4:20 pm

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