Fa17 Class Materials

Review sheet for the final exam

Schematic representation of eudaimonia (a .pdf file)

The Function Argument in EN 1.7 (a .pdf file)

Aristotle’s definition of soul (psuchê) in De Anima II.1 (a .pdf file)

A humorous piece on lumps (The Onion)

S. Marc Cohen’s excellent (but difficult) SEP entry on the Metaphysics

Aristotle on Substance and Form (a .pdf file)

The “true nature” / final cause of a cat (according to Purina)

Key for my remarks on written work

Synopsis of Plato

Exemplars vs. Patterns

The Parmenides Arguments

Plato take-home exam

Analogies of the Sun, Line, and Cave (Rep. VI and VII)

The Argument from Knowledge (Rep. V)

[A video on “the world’s roundest object”]

Two arguments from the Phaedo

Two arguments from the Protagoras

The Euthyphro Argument

Model answers & essays for first exam (a .pdf file)

Review sheet for first exam

Parmenides’s Way of Truth

Heraclitus’s river argument (or is it?)

A reconstruction of the Milesians’s reasoning

Course syllabus (a .pdf file)

PHIL 305 Links