If you’re around this summer and looking for a philosophy course – you might want to check out this offering. While not an Honors class, it is taught by an Honors professor. Honors students are very welcome, and they can expect a class that will be in ways similar Origins, but with a greater focus on Philosophy.
PHIL 2111 meets MTWR, 5/20-6/29, 12:30-2:00pm.
This is the course description:
This course is an overview of ancient Greek philosophy. We will begin with the fragmentary writings of the Presocratics, which date back to the 6th century BCE. And we will finish with the meditations of Marcus Aurelius and the handbook of Epictetus, two of the most famous stoics from the first and second centuries CE. Along the way, we will spend most of our time studying the thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Our discussions will cover issues in ethics, politics, psychology, aesthetics, religion, metaphysics, and epistemology. As we will see, in the ancient world these concepts were often treated together and studied as a way of life.
