PHIL 436 - Hellenistic Philosophy

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University of Pennsylvania

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Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. S.Meyer. Prerequisite(s): This course will be most suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in Philosophy or Classics; others need instructor's permission. Philosophy in the Hellenistic period (323-331 B.C.) is dominated by the debate between the Stoics and their various sceptical opponents. We will focus on how the Stoics try to construct their system (with special emphasis on their epistemology, physics and ethics), and on how the Academic and Pyrrhonean Sceptics argue against them. Readings will primarily be from Cicero, Diogenes, Laertius, Plutarch and Sextus Empiricus (all works to be read in translation!).

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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