CONFERENCES AND READING The reading of the starred references is required; the others are optional.
September 26. INTRODUCTION. *Perry: General Introduction to Philosophy (Lectures on Dr. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf of Books). 2
*Weber: History of Philosophy, §§ 1, 2. 3
James: Some Problems of Philosophy, Ch. I.
Perry: The Approach to Philosophy, Ch. I.
Russell: The Problems of Philosophy, Ch. XV. 4
October 3. RISE OF PHILOSOPHY IN GREECE. *Weber: §§ 4, 5, 6.
*Benn: Early Greek Philosophy(Philosophies Ancient and Modern), Ch. I. 5
*Bakewell: Source Book in Ancient Philosophy, pp. 1- 7. 6
Marshall: A Short History of Greek Philosophy, Ch. I, II.
October 10. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-SOCRATIC THOUGHT. *Weber: §§ 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
*Benn: Ch. II.
Bakewell: pp. 8- 56.
Marshall: Ch. III-V.
October 17. THE ATOMISTS. THE SOPHISTS. *Weber: §§ 12, 13.
*Benn: Ch. III, IV.
*Bakewell: pp. 67- 85.
Bakewell: pp. 57- 66.
Marshall: Ch. VI-X.
Clodd: Lucretius and the Atomists(Philosophies Ancient and Modern).
October 24. SOCRATES. THE SOCRATIC SCHOOLS. *Weber: §§ 14, 15.
*Benn: Ch. V.
*Bakewell: pp. 104- 141.
Bakewell: pp. 86- 103.
Marshall: Ch. XI-XIII. 7
October 31. PLATO’S THEORY OF THE IDEAS. *Weber: § 16 (1), (2).
*Bakewell: pp. 192- 216; 160- 168.
Bakewell: pp. 168- 179.
Plato: Protagoras; Phaedo(Everyman’s Library). 8
Taylor: Plato( Philosophies Ancient and Modern), Ch. II.
November 7. PLATO’S MORAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. *Weber: § 16 (3).
*Bakewell: pp. 182- 192; 152- 157.
*Plato: Republic, Bk. I (Everyman’s Library).
Plato: Republic, Bks. II-X.
Taylor: Plato, Ch. III.
November 14. ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS. *Weber: § 17 (1).
*Bakewell: pp. 217- 239.
Taylor: Aristotle(The People’s Books), Ch. I-III. 9
Aristotle: Metaphysics(trans. by Ross). 10
November 21. ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE AND MAN. *Weber: § 17 (2).
*Bakewell: pp. 240- 247; 251- 268.
Taylor: Aristotle, Ch. IV, V.
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics(Everyman’s Library).
Aristotle: Politics[ A Treatise on Government] (Everyman’s Library).
November 28. THE EPICUREANS. *Weber: § 18.
*Bakewell: pp. 290- 316.
Taylor: Epicurus(Philosophies Ancient and Modern).
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura(New Universal Library).
Santayana: Three Philosophical Poets, Ch. II. 11
Clodd: Lucretius and the Atomists.
December 5. THE STOICS. *Weber: § 19.
*Bakewell: pp. 269- 289; 317- 339.
Stock: Stoicism(Philosophies Ancient and Modern).
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations(Everyman’s Library).
Epictetus: Moral Discourses(Everyman’s Library).
December 12. ECLECTICISM. SCEPTICISM. NEO-PLATONISM. *Weber: §§ 24, 25, 26.
*Bakewell: pp. 340- 374; 384- 393.
Fuller: The Problem of Evil in Plotinus. 12
Seneca: On Benefits(Temple Classics).
Plutarch: Moralia(Everyman’s Library).
December 19. CHRISTIANITY. THE PATRISTIC PERIOD. *Weber: §§ 27, 28.
*St. Augustine: Confessions, Bks. I, VII (Everyman’s Library).
St. Augustine: Confessions, Bks. II-VI, VIII-X.
St. Augustine: The City of God(Temple Classics), Bks. VII-XII, XVI, XVIII.
January 9. THE RISE OF SCHOLASTICISM. *Weber: §§ 29-36.
*Rickaby: Scholasticism(Philosophies Ancient and Modern), Ch. I, II, §§ 1, 2. 13
St. Anselm: Proslogium, etc. (trans. by Deane) (Open Court Pub. Co.)
January 16. THE CULMINATION OF SCHOLASTICISM. *Weber: §§ 37-40.
*Rickaby: Ch. II, §§ 3, 4; III, VII.
Thomas Aquinas: Of God and His Creatures(trans. by Rickaby).
Dante: Divine Comedy(Everyman’s Library or Temple Classics). 14
St. Francis of Assisi: Little Flowers, etc. (Everyman’s Library or Temple Classics). 15
Bonaventura: Life of St. Francis(Temple Classics).
January 23. THE DECLINE OF SCHOLASTICISM. *Weber: §§ 41-48.
*Rickaby: Ch. IV, V.
Böhme: The Signature of All Things(Everyman’s Library).
Pater: [ Studies in the History of] The Renaissance. 16
Oldham: The Renaissance(Temple Cyclopaedic Primers).
Montaigne: Essays(Everyman’s Library or Temple Classics).
GENERAL REFERENCES Ueberweg [Friedrich]: History of Philosophy. [1876]
Windelband [Wilhelm]: History of Philosophy. [2 vols, 1893]
Windelband [Wilhelm]: History of Ancient Philosophy[1899] 17
Gomperz [Theodor]: Greek Thinkers. [4 vols, 1912] 18
Rogers [Arthur Kenyon]: Student’s History of Philosophy. [1901]
Cushman [Herbert Ernest]: [ A Beginner’s] History of Ancient Philosophy. [1911]
Dickinson, L. [G. Lowes]: Study of Greek Life[ The Greek View of Life]. [1896; 6 thed., 1909] 19
Taylor, H. O.: Ancient Ideals. [1896...