Preliminary Course Schedule:

 

Date

Topic

1.        

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Philosophy

2.        

Logic and Critical Thinking

Argument Analysis

 

Plato

 

Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology

 

Video Lectures:

Plato's Metaphysics & Epistemology: 1st Half (Being & Becoming)

Plato's Metaphysics & Epistemology: 2nd Half (Allegory of the Cave) 

 

3.        

Aristotle

 

Aristotle’s Metaphysics and  Epistemology

 

Video Lectures:

Aristotle's Metaphysics and Epistemology 1st Half

Aristotle's Metaphysics and Epistemology 2nd Half

 

 

4.        

E. Gilson, Reason and Revelation (Forward and Chapter 1)

 

The Early Church Fathers and Philosophy

(Faith and philosophy in the early church)

 

Philo of Alexandria

5.        

Agustine:

 

1 Augustine on Ancient Philosophy 31

9 Augustine on Divine Ideas and Illumination 83

14 Augustine on the Certainty of Self-Knowledge 117

32 Augustine on Divine Immutability 255

35 Augustine on Evil as the Privation of Goodness 309

 

6.        

Boethius:

 

The Consolation of Philosophy

4 Boethius Against Real Universals 59

37 Boethius on Being and Goodness 318

43 Boethius on the Supreme Good 353

 

7.        

Anselm:

 

Anselm’s Ontological Argument

 

33 Anselm of Canterbury on God’s Existence 259

8.        

Averroës

 

The Evolution of Islamic Medieval Philosophy and Theology

25 Averroës on the Immateriality of the Intellect 198

 

9.        

Thomas Aquinas:

 

Thomas Aquinas and the Cosmological Argument:

Cosmological Arguments: Overview

Cosmological Argument: Aquinas

 

3 Thomas Aquinas on the Nature and Scope of Sacred Doctrine 45

10 Thomas Aquinas on Illumination vs. Abstraction 87

11 Thomas Aquinas on our Knowledge of the First Principles of Demonstration 98

15 Thomas Aquinas on whether the Intellect Can Be False 120

34 Thomas Aquinas on God’s Existence and Simplicity 266

38 Thomas Aquinas on the Convertibility of Being and Goodness 322

44 Thomas Aquinas on Happiness 358

45 Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law and Positive Law 361

 

10.    

William Of Ockham

 

7 William Ockham on Universals 71

 

11.    

John Duns Scotus

 

13 John Duns Scotus on Divine Illumination

46 John Duns Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Law 375

 

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