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Presocratic philosophy. The school of Miletus. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes.
Reading:
István Pásztori-Kupán:
Ókori görög gondolkodók. Filozófiai bevezetés a teológia tanulmányozásához
, 7-18 (12)
Content
Ancient philosophy
What is philosophy? Its purpose and meaning.
Presocratic philosophy. The school of Miletus. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes.
The school of Elea. Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Melissus of Samos
Heraclitus
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreanism: Anaxagoras, Empedocles
Sophists of ancient Greece
Life and teaching of Socrates
Life of Plato and his periods of activity
Plato concerning the ideas, his theory of anamnesis and his moral philosophy
Life of Aristotle; classification of sciences
Metaphysics and logic of Aristotle; his theory concerning ousia
Cynicism
Stoicism and epicureanism
Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Porphyry of Tyre, Iamblichus Chalcidensis / Iamblichus of Apamea); meeting of philosophy and Christianity (Celsus, Libanius of Antiochia, Hypatia of Alexandria)