Philosophy 101: History of Western Philosophy
The Ancient Period

Course Notes

Contents

• Map of Greece and Environs
  also see Interactive Cultural Map
  
• A Brief History of the Greeks
  
• The Greek Experience of Tragedy
  
• Nietzsche on Tragedy
  
• Early Greek Philosophy
  
• The Sophists and Socrates
  
  • Lysis
    
  • Euthyphro
    
  • Apology
    
  • Crito
    
  • Phaedo
    
• Plato
  
  • Gorgias
    
  • Protagoras
    
  • Background to the Republic
    
  • Republic II, III, & IV
    
  • Republic V, VI, & VII
    
  • Symposium
    
  • Personal Reflections on Symposium
    
  • Phaedrus
    
  • Theaetetus
    
• Aristotle
  
  • The Posterior Analytics
    
  • Physics
    
  • Metaphysics
    
  • Nicomachean Ethics
    
  • Politics