Ancient Philosophy - Module Outline (Part Two)
Tutorial, Week 7, Socrates and the Importance of Philosophy
Key Reading: Irwin, T., Classical Philosophy, Sect. IV, ‘From Socrates to Scepticism’, pp. 84-95, Sect. V, Knowledge, Belief and Forms’, pp. 112–122, and Sect. XI, ‘Knowledge and Desire in Virtue’, pp. 278-290 (OUP, 1999)
Additional Possible Reading
Annas, J, ‘Plato the Skeptic’; in P. A. Vander Waerdt, ed., The Socratic Movement (Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 309-40 [on order 08/06]
Bailey, A, Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism (Clarendon Press, 2002), Chapter 3, ‘Arcesilaus and Suspension of Judgement’ [on order 08/06]
Beversluis, J, ‘Socratic Definition’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 11 (1974), pp. 331-6
Frede, M, ‘The Skeptic’s Two Kinds of Assent and the Question of the Possibility of Knowledge’; in his Essays in Ancient Philosophy (Clarendon Press, 1987), pp. 201-22
Gower, B.S, ed., Socratic Questions: The Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance (Routledge, 1992)
Hadot, P, What is Ancient Philosophy? (Harvard University Press, 2002), Part One, ‘The Platonic Definition of “Philosopher” and its Antecedents’, pp. 9-51 [on order 08/06]
Kahn, C.H, ‘Pre-Platonic Ethics’; in S. Everson, ed., Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 27-48 [on order 08/06]
Kerferd, G.B., The Sophistic Movement (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
McKirahan, R.D., Philosophy before Socrates (Hackett, 1994), Chapter 18, ‘Early Greek Moral Thought and the Fifth-Century Sophists’
Penner, T. ‘Socrates and the Early Dialogues’; in R. Kraut, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 121-69
*Prior, W.J, Virtue and Knowledge (Routledge, 1991), Chapter 2, ‘The Sophists and Socrates’
Reeve, C.D.C, Socrates in the Apology (Hackett, 1989)
*Taylor, C.C.W, Socrates, (Oxford University Press, 1998), Chapter 4 [on order 08/06]
Vlastos, G, ‘What did Socrates understand by his ‘What is F’ Question?’; in his Platonic Studies (Princeton University Press, 2nd edn. 1981), pp. 410-17
___ ‘The Socratic Elenchus’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, I (1983), pp. 27-53
___ Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Woodruff, P, ‘Plato’s Early Theory of Knowledge’; in S. Everson, ed., Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 60-84)
Tutorial, Week 9, Aristotle and the Good Life
Key Reading: Irwin, T., Classical Philosophy, Sect. X, ‘Good, Pleasure, and Happiness’, pp. 250-271 (OUP, 1999)
Additional Possible Reading
Ackrill, J.L, ‘Aristotle on Eudaimonia’; in A.O. Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (University of California Press, 1980), pp. 15-34
Everson, S, ‘Aristotle on Nature and Value’; in S. Everson, ed., Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 77-106
Hughes, G.J, Aristotle on Ethics (Routledge, 2001), Chapters 2, 3, 9, and 10
Hutchinson, D.S, ‘Ethics’; in J. Barnes, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 195-232
MacIntyre, A, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (Duckworth, 1981), Chapter 12, ‘Aristotle’s Account of the Virtues’
___ A Short History of Ethics (Routledge, 2nd edn. 1998), Chapter 7, ‘Aristotle’s Ethics’
Nagel, T, ‘Aristotle on Eudaimonia’: in A.O. Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (University of California Press, 1980), pp. 7-14
Okin, S.M, Women in Western Political Thought (Princeton University Press: 1979), Part II, Aristotle, Chapter 4, ‘Women’s Place and Nature in a Functionalist World’
Rist, J.M, ‘Aristotle: the Value of Man and the Origin of Morality’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 4 (1974), pp. 1-21
Suits, B, ‘Aristotle on the Function of Man’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 4 (1974), pp. 23-40
Urmson, J.O, Aristotle’s Ethics (Blackwell, 1988), Chapters 1, 2, and 10
Wilkes, K.V, ‘The Good Man and the Good for Man in Aristotle’s Ethics’; in A.O. Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (University of California Press, 1980), pp. 341-58
Williams, B, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Fontana, 1985), Chapter 3. ‘Foundations: Well-Being’
Tutorial, Week 11, Pyrrhonism
Key Reading: Irwin, T., Classical Philosophy, Sect. IV, ‘Knowledge and Belief’, pp. 105-111, and Sect. VII, ‘Knowledge and Belief: Answers to Scepticism’, pp. 194-196 (OUP, 1999)
Additional Possible Reading
Annas, J. and Barnes, J, The Modes of Scepticism (Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Bailey, A, ‘Pyrrhonean Scepticism and the Self-Refutation Argument’, Philosophical Quarterly, 40 (1990), pp. 27-44
___ ‘Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism’ (Clarendon Press, 2002), Chapters 1, 6, 10, and 11 [on order 08/06]
Barnes, J, ‘Some Ways of Scepticism’; in S. Everson, ed., Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 204-24
___ The Toils of Scepticism (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Burnyeat, M, ‘Can the Sceptic Live his Scepticism’; in M. Schofield, M. Burnyeat, and J. Barnes, eds., Doubt and Dogmatism (Clarendon Press, 1980), pp. 20-53
___ ‘The Sceptic in his Place and Time’; in R. Rorty, J. Schneewind, and Q. Skinner, eds., Philosophy in History (Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 225-54
Frede, M, ‘The Skeptic’s Beliefs’; in his Essays in Ancient Philosophy (Clarendon Press, 1987), pp. 179-200
___ ‘The Skeptic’s Two Kinds of Assent and the Question of the Possibility of Knowledge’; in his Essays in Ancient Philosophy (Clarendon Press, 1987), pp. 201-22
Groarke, L, Greek Scepticism: Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990), Chapter 1, ‘Toward a new Interpretation of the Sceptics’, and Chapter 6, ‘Later Pyrrhonism’ [on order 08/06]
Hankinson, R.J, The Sceptics (Routledge, 1995), Chapter 17, ‘The Sceptical Attitude’, and Chapter 18, ‘The Sceptical Way of Life’ [on order 08/06]
Hookway, C, Scepticism (Routledge, 1990), Chapter 1, ‘Pyrrhonism: the Life without Belief’, and Chapter 2, ‘The Legacy of Pyrrhonism’
McPherran, M, ‘Sceptical Homeopathy and Self-Refutation’, Phronesis, 32 (1987), pp. 290-328
Sedley, D, ‘The Motivation of Greek Scepticism’; in M. Burnyeat, ed., The Skeptical Tradition (University of California Press, 1983), pp. 9-29
Sextus Empiricus, ‘The Outlines of Scepticism’, ed. J. Annas and J. Barnes (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Introduction and Book One
Striker, G, ‘The Ten Modes of Aenesidemus’; in M. Burnyeat, ed., The Skeptical Tradition (University of California Press, 1983), pp. 95-115
Williams, M, Problems of Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2001), Chapter 5, ‘Agrippa’s Trilemma’
Williams, M, ‘Scepticism without Theory’, Review of Metaphysics, 61 (1988), pp. 547-88
The Pyrrhonean attitude towards value beliefs is discussed in:
Annas, J, ‘Doing without Objective Values: Ancient and Modern Strategies’; in S. Everson, ed., Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 193-220 [on order 08/06]
Hankinson, R.J, ‘Values, Objectivity and Dialectic: The Skeptical Attack on Ethics: Its Methods, Aims and Success’, Phronesis, 39 (1994), pp. 45-68
McPherran, M, ‘Pyrrhonism’s Arguments against Value’, Philosophical Studies, 60 (1990), pp. 127-42
Nussbaum, M, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (University of Princeton Press, 1994), Chapter 8, ‘Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief’
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