Nature
and Man
Spring 2004
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Plato and Aristotle |
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Plato
Plato's Apology. Cybertext version with lots of historical background.
Plato's Apology. Just the text.
Outline of Thomas Nagel's "Death"
Outline of the Argument from Recollection
Aristophanes's speech from Plato's Symposium
Plato's Republic
Selection from Book V
Selection from Book VI
Selection from Book VII
Aristotle
Some
Main Points of Aristotle's Thought
Selections from Aristotle's Physics
Selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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Christianity |
Some Main Points of Christianity
Soren
Kierkegaard, a selection from Fear and
Trembling
Answers to practice exam, Part I
The Existence of God
St. Anselm's Ontological Proof
St. Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
William Paley, Selection (Ch. 1) from Natural Theology
The Problem of Evil
Outline of Problem of Evil and Reading Questions
Leibniz, Selections from The Theodicy
Selections from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Josiah Royce, The Problem of Job
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The Scientific Revolution |
Galileo Galilei, "Two Kinds of Properties"
Roger Penrose, Prologue to Shadows of the Mind
The View of Nature of the Scientific Revolution
Study guide to Brave New World
Monarch notes to Brave New World
Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Important arguments from Descartes' Meditations
An Outline of Descartes' Meditations
Different Views on the Relationship between Mind and Body
David Hume. "Of Personal Identity"
David Hume. "Essays on Suicide and Immortality"
Answers to practice exam Part II
Thomas Nagel, "What is it Like to be a Bat "
Frank Jackson, "What Mary Doesn't Know "
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Contemporary Views of Man |
Existentialism
Outline
of Some Important Points from Sartre's Existentialism and Human Emotions
Banach,
"The Ethics of Absolute Freedom"
An old Humanities lecture, but still serviceable.
Jean Paul Sartre, from Existentialism and Human Emotions
Jean Paul
Sartre, "Sincerity" from Being and Nothingness
Albert Camus, "The Myth Of Sisyphus"
Camus Preceptorial Page: Other works by Camus and Web resources
Romanticism
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
E.M. Forster, “The Beauty of Life”
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