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Philosophy 1 Introduction to Philosophy Spring, 2002 Dr. G. J. Mattey What is Philosophy? Three kinds of answer Philosophy treats a certain subject-matter Philosophy uses a certain method Philosophy is the sort of thing people called “philosophers” have done The Subjects of Philosophy Metaphysics: the general nature of reality Epistemology: the nature of knowledge Ethics: the values of human action Aesthetics: the nature of beauty Logic: the forms of inference History of Philosophy Philosophy of X (e.g., science) The Methods of Philosophy Analysis of language or concepts Analysis of mental activity Theorizing about what is beyond experience Theorizing about methods Theorizing at a high level of generality Posing and trying to solve puzzles Support of claims through argumentation The History of Western Philosophy Hellenic philosophy (Plato) Hellenistic philosophy (Epicurus) Medieval philosophy (Aquinas) Modern philosophy (Descartes) Analytic Philosophy (Russell) Continental philosophy (Sartre) Time Line 6th to 4th cent. BC: Hellenic 3rd cent. BC to 2nd cent. AD: Hellenistic 3rd cent. to 4th cent.: Neo-Platonic 5th cent. To 14th cent.: Medieval 15th cent. to 16th cent.: Renaissance 17th cent. to 18th cent.: Modern 19th and 20th cent.: Analytic, Continental Plan for the Course Part One: Metaphysics and Epistemology Part Two: Ethics Each class will cover reading from a classic text in the history of Western philosophy Emphasis will be on the most influential philosophical theories and the basic arguments supporting them Philosophy’s Greatest Hits Plato: The Republic Aristotle: Metaphysics, Nichomachean Ethics Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature Kant Critique of Pure Reason, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals * * *