1. Introduction to Philosophy
Required Reading Schedule
Text: The Story of Philosophy by Bryan Magee. DK Publishing. 2001
Week 1: Before Socrates, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (pgs. 12-39)
Week 2: The Sceptics, The Epicureans, and The Stoics (pg. 42-47)
Week 3: Saint Augustine, Medieval Philosophy (pgs. 50-61)
Week 4: Copernicus to Newton, Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, Hobbes (pgs. 64-81)
Week 5: The Great Rationalists, The Great Empiricists (pgs. 84-119)
Week 6: Revolutionary French Thinkers (pgs. 122-129), Kant, Schopenhauer
(pgs. 132-145), Schelling, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche (pgs. 157-179)
Week 7: Democracy and Philosophy (pgs. 182-191), 20th Century Philosophy,
(pgs. 196-227).