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What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold proposals about the ultimate constituents of reality, while Heraclitus insisted that there is an underlying order to the changing world. Parmenides of Elea formulated a powerful objection to all these proposals, while later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and the atomist Democritus) attempted to answer that objection. In fifth-century Athens, Socrates insisted on the importance of the fundamental ethical question—“How shall I live?”—and his pupil, Plato, and Plato’s pupil, Aristotle, developed elaborate philosophical systems to explain the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness. After the death of Aristotle, in the Hellenistic period, Epicureans and Stoics developed and transformed that earlier tradition. We will study the major doctrines of all these thinkers. Part I will cover Plato and his predecessors. Part II will cover Aristotle and his successors....
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Aristotle’s Categories

Aristotle’s anti-Platonic metaphysics: the ultimate realities are ordinary objects of our experience, like people and animals. Each of these is a substances, the most fundamental type of being....
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6 个视频（共 49 分钟）, 1 个阅读材料, 2 个测验
Video6 个视频
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy6分钟
Introduction to Aristotle5分钟
Subjects and Predicates8分钟
Universals and Particulars8分钟
Substance and Subject11分钟
Subjects of Change8分钟
Reading1 个阅读材料
Aristotle's Categories10分钟
Quiz2 个练习
Subjects and Predicates10分钟
Substances & Subjects10分钟

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Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

Natural substances have matter and form, and natural processes are goal-directed. Every living thing, plants and animals included, has a soul that moves it....
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6 个视频（共 57 分钟）, 2 个阅读材料, 3 个测验
Video6 个视频
Matter, Form, and Change10分钟
Nature12分钟
Is Form or Matter Nature?5分钟
The Four Causes10分钟
Natural Teleology10分钟
Soul As Cause8分钟
Reading2 个阅读材料
Aristotle's Physics10分钟
Aristotle's On the Soul10分钟
Quiz3 个练习
Change & Nature6分钟
Causes in Nature10分钟
Aristotelian Souls4分钟

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Aristotle's Ethics

The motion of the universe is eternal and its cause is an eternal unmoved mover, Aristotle’s god. Our goal in life is to achieve happiness, which comes in two varieties: the human happiness we achieve by exercising the virtues of character, and the godlike happiness we achieve when we grasp eternal truths....
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9 个视频（共 83 分钟）, 2 个阅读材料, 2 个测验
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The Eternity of Motion10分钟
The First Mover of the Cosmos9分钟
The Unmoved Mover10分钟
The Goal of Life7分钟
What Are You Doing With Your Life?6分钟
Happiness and Living Well9分钟
Pleasure and the Human Function9分钟
Virtue of Character8分钟
Godlike Virtue10分钟
Reading2 个阅读材料
Aristotle's Metaphysics10分钟
Aristotle's Ethics10分钟
Quiz2 个练习
The Unmoved Mover10分钟
Aristotle's Ethics10分钟

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Epicureanism

Epicureans return to the atomism of Democritus, and find no purpose in nature. Philosophy is a therapeutic practice that removes fear and anxiety and provides us with the tranquility (ataraxia) of the gods....
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8 个视频（共 66 分钟）, 4 个阅读材料, 2 个测验
Video8 个视频
Introduction to Epicurus9分钟
Nature and the Gods9分钟
Therapeutic Philosophy9分钟
Death Is Nothing To Us6分钟
What's Wrong With Death?7分钟
Ataraxia8分钟
Restricting Desire7分钟
Enduring Pain8分钟
Reading4 个阅读材料
The Letter to Menoeceus10分钟
The Letter of Epicurus to Herodotus10分钟
On the nature of the gods10分钟
Principal Doctrines10分钟
Quiz2 个练习
Gods and Death8分钟
Pleasure and Pain12分钟
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创建者 DV•Aug 19th 2016

Very much enjoyed this course. Some areas were a review but in others I was able to gain a great deal of new insight into the philosophies that were covered. Many Thanks!

创建者 NK•Jul 13th 2017

Absolutely amazing course. Very excellent teacher. She is eloquent, knowledgable and effective at teaching. The only sad part is that she only has 2 courses on Coursera.

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Susan Sauvé Meyer

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Department of Philosophy

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The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies. ...

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