PHI 105 Class Notes

Introduction: An Overview of Philosophy and Ethical Theory

• Overview of Philosophy
• Overview of Normative Ethics
• Overview of Metaethics
  • 10 Sept class session
  • 13 Sept class session
  • 15 Sept class session
  • 17 Sept class session
  • 20 Sept class session
  • 22 Sept class session
  • 24 Sept class session

Ancient Thinkers Consider How We Should Live (Part 1)

• Hesiod
  • 27 Sept class session: Overview of Ancient Greek Religion (part 1)
  • 29 Sept class session: Overview of Ancient Greek Religion (part 2)
  • 1 Oct class session: Hesiod and the Divine Command Theory (part 1)
  • 4 Oct class session: Hesiod and the Divine Command Theory (part 2)
• Sophokles - Antigone
  • 6 Oct class session: Sophokles’ “Antigone” (part 1)
  • 8 Oct class session: Sophokles’ “Antigone” (part 2)
  • 10 Oct class session: Sophokles’ “Antigone” (part 3)
• Plato - Euthuphro
  • 13 Oct class session: Plato - Background to the “Euthuphro”
  • 15 Oct class session: Plato - “Euthuphro” (part 1)
  • 18 Oct class session: Plato - “Euthuphro” (part 2)
  • 20 Oct class session: Plato - “Euthuphro” (part 3)
• Plato - Krito
  • 22 Oct class session: Plato’s “Krito” (part 1)
  • 25 Oct class session: Plato’s “Krito” (part 2)
• Plato - Protagoras
  • 27 Oct class session: Plato’s “Protagoras” (part 1)
  • 29 Oct class session: Plato’s “Protagoras” (part 2)

Ancient Thinkers Consider How We Should Live (Part 2)

• Plato
  • 1 Nov class session: Plato’s “Republic” (part 1)
  • 3 Nov class session: Plato’s “Republic” (part 2)
  • 5 Nov class session: Plato’s “Republic” (part 3)
  • 8 Nov class session: Plato’s “Republic” (part 4)
• Aristotle
  • 10 Nov class session: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” (part 1)
  • 12 Nov class session: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” (part 2)
  • 17 Nov class session: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” (part 3)
  • 19 Nov class session: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” (part 4)
  • 22 Nov class session: Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” (part 5)
• Epikouros
  • 24 Nov class session: Historical Background to Hellenistic Philosophy
  • 29 Nov class session: Epikouros (part 1)
  • 1 Dec class session: Epikouros (part 2)
• Epiktetos
  • 3 Dec class session: Stoicism (part 1)
  • 6 Dec class session: Stoicism (part 2)

Modern Thinkers Consider How We Should Live

• 8 Dec class session: Overview of Modern Moral Theories (part 1)
• 10 Dec class session: Overview of Modern Moral Theories (part 2)
• Thomas Hobbes
• Immanuel Kant
  class session: Immanuel Kant and Deontological Ethics
• Jeremy Bentham
  class session: Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism
• John Stuart Mill
• Friedrick Nietzsche

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