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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Philosophy

104-224/324 Greek Philosophy: in Search of the Good Life

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Prerequisite/s:

Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department.

Contact:

Two lectures and a tutorial a week, or equivalent.

Subject Description:

Selected works of Plato, Aristotle and other Greek philosophers on the nature of the good life. Students on completion of the subject should be introduced to the scope, achievement and principal concerns of Ancient Philosophy, and have acquired critical and analytical skills in the reading of selected Greek philosophical texts.

Assessment:

3000 words of written work (50%) and a 2-hour examination (50%).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Aristotle, Ethics, Penguin.
  • Irwin T, Classical Thought, Oxford.
  • Plato, Symposium, Penguin.
  • Plato, Phaedrus, Penguin.
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