Introduction To Philosophy First Class Slide
I. Introductions:
Your Name, Current Town, High School & Town, and What you hope for in this
course.
A few words about the web site
and readings:
what are
Plato (and/or Socrates) doing,
why are they
doing it,
why do they
care about what their fellow citizens are doing,
is Socrates
on a “divine mission,”
is he
“completely ignorant,
why not
escape—does Socrates have a “death wish,” and
why are these
important questions?
Pause for Questions
II. A Quick Introduction To
Philosophy:
The
“Wondering Conception
The “Enduring
Questions Conception
The
Dialectical Conception
Ending A
Philosophical Dialectic
How to Read
Philosophy
Pause for Discussion
III. Introduction To Plato:
His Life and
the “Golden Age of Ancient Greece
Pause for Discussion
Plato’s
“Faith” in Reason
Plato’s View
of the Philosophical Methodology
elenchus
aporia
dialectic
Plato and
“The Forms”
Plato’s View
of “Man”
Pause for Discussion
IV. Assignment for next class:
read Plato’s Euthyphro.
We will be discussing of what
Euthyphro is doing, what Socrates
is doing (and why he is doing it),
and why Socrates cares about what
Euthyphro is doing? In addition
we will discuss the Greeks’ views regarding religion and of Plato’s differing
view. We will also finish the
discussions remaining from "What Is Philosophy?" and "Introduction to Plato."
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Last revised: 03/18/21