History of Philosophy lecture notes…
These notes have all been compiled from the 1992 lecture series of Dr. Arthur Holmes...
- The Beginning of Greek Philosophy
- The Moral Universe in the Pre-Socratics
- The Greek Sophists
- Plato’s Epistemology
- Plato’s Theory of Forms
- Plato on God
- God and Plato on the Human Soul
- Plato’s Ethics
- Plato (conclusions) and Aristotle’s Metaphysics
- Aristotle’s Metaphysics 1
- Aristotle’s Metaphysics 2
- Aristotle’s God
- Aristotle’s Epistemology and the Human Soul
- Aristotle’s Ethics
- Epicurean Philosophy
- Stoicism (these notes are in 2 parts, here is Stoicism 2)
- Greek and Roman Skepticism
- Middle and Neo-Platonism
- Neo-Platonism and the Church Fathers
- Augustine and Neo-Platonism
- Augustine’s Christian Philosophy
- Early Medieval Philosophy
- Problem of Universals
- Thomas Aquinas’ Christian Aristotelianism
- Aquinas on God
- Aquinas’ Moral Psychology and Ethics
- Duns Scotus and William of Ockham
- Summing Up Ockham’s Revolution (Introduction to Francis Bacon)
- Francis Bacon
- Thomas Hobbes
- Descartes
- Descartes’ Meditations 1
- Descartes’ Meditations 2
- Descartes on God and Nature
- Descarte’s Moral & Psychological Ethics
- Spinoza
- Reason and Emotions in Spinoza
- Spinoza and Leibniz
- Leibinz’s “Monads”
- Leibniz on Evil
- John Locke
- John Locke’s Theory of Ideas
- Locke on Religion, Ethics, and Politics
- George Berkeley’s Idealism
- Berkeley Replies to Objections
- David Hume
- Hume: Do We Know What’s Real?
- Hume on Religion and Ethics
- Reactions to David Hume
- Scottish Realism
- Introducing Immanuel Kant
- Kant’s Epistemology
- Kant on Understanding
- Kant on Metaphysics
- Kant’s Ethics
- German Idealism
- Hegel
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Mind
- Hegel on Absolute Spirit
- Post-Hegelian Idealism
- Whitehead’s Process Philosophy
- Whitehead and Process Theology
- Whitehead’s “Science and the Modern World”
- American Pragmatism
- John Dewey
- Dewey’s “Reconstructive Philosophy”
- Introduction to Existentialism
- Historical Roots of Existentialism
- Nietzsche and an Introduction to Phenomenology
- Husserl and Heidegger
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Other Phenomenologists
- 19th Century Empiricism
- Bertrand Russell — Logical Atomism
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Logical Positivism
- A.J. Ayer — Language, Truth and Logic
- Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Ethics Since Logical Positivism
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy Today and Tomorrow

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