Philosophy in the Age of the Greeks
1. The question of Being (to on/ousia): Being as Idea in Plato`s Phaedo, Republic and the Sophist, Being as synthesis of hyle [matter] and morphe [form] in Aristotle`s Metaphysics andPhysics
2. Knowledge (episteme, doxa, sophia): Distinction between knowledge (episteme) and opinion (doxa) Plato`s Theatetus and Republic; Distinction between universals and particulars in Aristotle`s Posterior Analytics, Categories, Nicomachean Ethics and the De Anima
3. Virtue (arete): Virtue as knowledge in Plato`s Protagoras, Meno; Justice in Plato`s Republic; Virtue as activity in relation to happiness (Eudamonia) Nicomachean Ethics and Politics; Practical Wisdom (Phronesis) and Theoretical Wisdom (Sophia) in Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics
4. Politics and the Political life (politeia, zoon politikon)?: Politics and Reason Plato`s Republic and Laws; Equality in Plato`s Republic; The human being as a political animal in Aristotle`s Politics; Inequality and the Question of Slavery in Aristotle`s Politics; Ethics as a branch of Politics in Aristotle`s NicomacheanEthics
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