Katja Maria Vogt | Columbia University

Introduction to Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Intro 01-1: What is Presocratic Philosophy?
Ancient Philosophy Intro 01-2: Thales on Water
Ancient Philosophy Intro 02-1: Perceptibles and Intelligibles
Ancient Philosophy Intro 02-2: Being and Not-Being
Ancient Philosophy Intro 03-1: Parmenides on Mortal Opinion
Ancient Philosophy Intro 03-2: The Characteristics of Being
Ancient Philosophy Intro 04-1: Nothing Comes from Nothing
Ancient Philosophy Intro 04-2: Empty and Void
Ancient Philosophy Intro 05-1: Socratic Ignorance
Ancient Philosophy Intro 05-2: Mind as Cause
Ancient Philosophy Intro 06-1: The Method of Question and Answer
Ancient Philosophy Intro 06-2: Socratic Paradoxes
Ancient Philosophy Intro 07-1: “What is X?”-Questions
Ancient Philosophy Intro 07-2: Disagreement about the Good
Ancient Philosophy Intro 08-1: What and How in the Euthyphro
Ancient Philosophy Intro 08-2: The Euthyphro Problem
Ancient Philosophy Intro 09-1: Justice and Virtue
Ancient Philosophy Intro 09-2: Desiring the Good
Ancient Philosophy Intro 10-1: The Meno Problem
Ancient Philosophy Intro 10-2: Recollection
Ancient Philosophy Intro 11-1: Hypotheses in the Meno
Ancient Philosophy Intro 11-2: True Belief and Knowledge
Ancient Philosophy Intro 12-1: Plato’s Function Argument
Ancient Philosophy Intro 12-2: Courage in Plato’s Republic
Ancient Philosophy Intro 13-1: City and Soul in Plato’s Republic
Ancient Philosophy Intro 13-2: Tripartition in Plato’s Republic
Ancient Philosophy Intro 14-1: The Form of the Good
Ancient Philosophy Intro 14-2: Knowledge, Doxa, Ignorance
Ancient Philosophy Intro 15-1: Beliefs about the Good?
Ancient Philosophy Intro 15-2: The Simile of the Line
Ancient Philosophy Intro 16-1: Dialectic in Plato and Aristotle
Ancient Philosophy Intro 16-2: First Sentence of the Nicomachean Ethics
Ancient Philosophy Intro 17-1: A Well-Lived Human Life
Ancient Philosophy Intro 17-2: Aristotle’s Function Argument
Ancient Philosophy Intro 18-1: Habituation
Ancient Philosophy Intro 18-2: The Mean Relative to Us
Ancient Philosophy Intro 19-1: All Human Beings by Nature Desire to Know
Ancient Philosophy Intro 19-2: Formal and Final Causes
Ancient Philosophy Intro 20-1: The Science We Are Seeking
Ancient Philosophy Intro 20-2: Metaphysics and Ontology
Ancient Philosophy Intro 21-1: Democritus and Aristotle
Ancient Philosophy Intro 21-2: Evident and Non-Evident
Ancient Philosophy Intro 22-1: Attributes, Accidents, Color
Ancient Philosophy Intro 22-2: Zeno and Epicurus on Infinity
Ancient Philosophy Intro 23-1: Psychological Monism
Ancient Philosophy Intro 23-2: Cognitive Impressions?
Ancient Philosophy Intro 24-1: Discernibility and Identity
Ancient Philosophy Intro 24-2: Stoic Normative Epistemology
Ancient Philosophy Intro 25-1: Augustine on the Mind
Ancient Philosophy Intro 25-2: Knowledge of Testimony