{"id":8706,"date":"2022-04-28T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/courses\/2019\/12\/23\/ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-his-successors\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T21:16:19","slug":"ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-his-successors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/courses\/ancient-philosophy-aristotle-and-his-successors\/university-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single_post\" style=\"margin-top:16px;\";>\n<div class=\"post-single-content box mark-links entry-content\">\n<div class=\"thecontent\">\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>What is philosophy?  How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse?  This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece.  We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists.  Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold proposals about the ultimate constituents of reality, while Heraclitus insisted that there is an underlying order to the changing world.  Parmenides of Elea formulated a powerful objection to all these proposals, while later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and the atomist Democritus) attempted to answer that objection.  In fifth-century Athens, Socrates insisted on the importance of the fundamental ethical question\u2014\u201cHow shall I live?\u201d\u2014and his pupil, Plato, and Plato\u2019s pupil, Aristotle, developed elaborate philosophical systems to explain the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness.  After the death of Aristotle, in the Hellenistic period, Epicureans and Stoics developed and transformed that earlier tradition.  We will study the major doctrines of all these thinkers.  Part I will cover Plato and his predecessors.  Part II will cover Aristotle and his successors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Price: Enroll For Free!<\/h2>\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-very-light-gray-color has-background has-vivid-red-background-color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/aristotle\">View Class<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Language:<\/strong> <\/em>English<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Subtitles<\/strong>: <\/em>English<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"background-color:#496d89\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-text-align-center has-very-light-gray-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/aristotle\">Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors<strong> &#8211; University of Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description What is philosophy? 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