Introduction to Philosophy

This page contains on-line texts related to the philosophers studied in this course. Assigned portions are in parentheses if only selections are assigned.

• Plato: Euthyphro
• Plato: Phaedo
• Aristotle: Categories (Through Chapter 5)
• Aristotle: Physics (Book I, 1, 7, 8; Book II; Book III, 1-3; Book IV, 6)
• Aristotle: Metaphysics (Book I, 1-4, 6 9; Book VII, 1-4, 6)
• Anselm: Proslogion, Guanilo’s Reply, Anselm’s Reply to Guanilo
• Aquinas, Summa Theologica, First Part, Question 2. The Existence of God
• Descartes: Meditations
• Hume: Enquiry
• Kant: Critique
• Russell: Problems
• Plato: Republic
• Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics
• Hobbes: Leviathan
• Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Mill: Utilitarianism

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