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bewitch.htmlbewitch.htmlI. Ancient Philosophy

The Pre-Socratics

  1. The One and the Many
  2. Achilles and the Tortoise

The Sophists

  1. Can We Know Right From Wrong?

Socrates and Plato

  1. What is the soul?
  2. Is the soul immortal?
  3. What is the Good Life?
  4. The Allegory of the Cave
  5. What is Knowledge?

Aristotle

  1. The Four Causes
  2. The Golden Mean
  3. The Prime Mover

The Stoics and the Epicureans

  1. The Life of Pleasure
  2. Is Fatalism True?

II. Medieval Philosophy

St. Augustine

  1. The Problem of Evil

St. Anselm

  1. Anselm’s Ontological Argument

Abelard and Heloise

  1. The Problem of Universals

St. Thomas Aquinas

  1. Aquinas’ Five Proofs
  2. What is Law?
  3. Can God know the future?

Scotus and Ockham

  1. God’s Will or God’s Reason?

III. Renaissance Philosophy

Machiavelli

  1. The Problem of Power

Ficino and Michelangelo

  1. What is Beauty?

Hobbes

  1. The State of Nature

IV. Modern Philosophy

Descartes

  1. The Problem of Freedom
  2. The Mind and the Body
  3. The Cartesian Circle

Spinoza

  1. The Aspect of the Eternal

Leibniz

  1. The Best of All Possible Worlds

Locke

  1. Where does Knowledge Come From?

Hume

  1. The Problem of Skepticism
  2. Matters of Fact and Relations of Ideas
  3. Is and Ought

Jefferson

  1. What’s Government For?

Kant

  1. The Mind and Reality
  2. The Antinomies
  3. Freedom and Duty
  4. The Categorical Imperative

Hegel

  1. The Dialectic
  2. The Weltgeist
  3. God on Earth

Bentham and Mill

  1. Pleasure and Pain
  2. Justifying Moral Decisions
  3. Desire and the Desirable
  4. The Problem of Liberty

Kierkegaard

  1. One of the Crowd
  2. Stages on Life’s Way
  3. What is Faith?

James

  1. The Squirrel and the Tree

V. Contemporary Philosophy

Nietzsche

  1. The Ubermensch
  2. Reason and Passion

Marx

  1. Master and Slave

Russell

  1. The Winged Horse
  2. The Barber
  3. The Liar

Ayer

  1. The Problem of Meaning

Ryle

  1. The Category Mistake
  2. The Ghost in the Machine

Austin

  1. “Voluntary”

Wittgenstein

  1. The Mystical
  2. Meaning as Use
  3. Pain and Private Language

Marcel

  1. Problems and Mysteries

Heidegger

  1. The Forgetfulness of Being
  2. Thrownness

Sartre

  1. The Dusty Road
  2. Bad Faith

Beauvoir

  1. The Mystery of Woman

VI. Recent Philosophy

Einstein

  1. Space and Time
  2. Time Travel

Schlesinger

  1. The Two Boxes

Flew

  1. The Gardener

Quine

  1. An Old Distinction
  2. What Really Exists?

Searle

  1. The Chinese Room

King

  1. The Problem of Conscience

The Postmodernists

Foucault

  1. Prisons and Madhouses

Derrida

  1. Deconstruction

Rorty

  1. The Priest and the Poet

VII. Extras

  1. The Hangman
  2. Marilyn
  3. Brains in Vats
  4. The Chicken