The History of Philosophy series is replacing all of the philosopher tapes in years 1 and 3 for the World View Classes. These books give far better information that the audio tapes due. The books are well indexed and have detailed table of contents. This makes them easy to use. Families studying on their own may continue to use the tapes as outlined in the syllabus. those enrolled in the World View Classes are required to use the books.

Week 17

The Syllabus for this week is very unrealistic. The most important part of week 17 is not to try and do it in one week. Take three weeks to do this section. Week 17A Socrates, Week 17B Plato, Week 17C Aristotle. You may also follow my alternate instructions below.

The Greek Philosophers

In my classes I am now adding a fourth week to the Greek Philosophers. Since the information on the tapes may not be enough to answer all of the world view questions for Socrates. I am adding an assignment. Practically everything we know about Socrates' ideas comes from three early texts, Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito by Plato.

Week 17 Socrates Texts: The assignment is to read the three texts above. My classes will read The texts from The Trial and Death of Socrates. Those not in my classes can print them off of the internet at the above links. (total of 46 pages) The student will also need to print the following cover sheet. (Socrates Cover Sheet). The student will highlight each of the World View Questions on the cover sheet with a different color highlighter. Use this color scheme. As the students read through the texts they are to highlight any section that is discussing any of the World View Questions in the corresponding color found on the cover page. I do take up these assignments and assign a grade to them.

My classes will be using the The History of Philosophy Vol 1 by Frederick Copleston instead of the Knowledge Products / Blackstone Audio Tapes.This is a much better resource for understanding the philosopher's positions on the World View Questions.

Week 17A Socrates: Listen to the Socrates tapes. Keep the seven world view questions in front of you and try to identify how Socrates would answer them.

If you want to skip the week of reading and highlighting the text, then Read and Search the above texts with keywords from the seven world view questions. ( See E-Text ) to find any answers to the world view questions the tapes do not address.

Week 17B Plato: Listen to the Plato tapes. Keep the seven world view questions in front of you and try to identify how Plato would answer them.

The information on the tapes may not be enough to answer all of the world view questions. If there are world view questions that you have difficulty with, go to Plato's Writings and search with with keywords from the seven world view questions.( See E-Text ) The History of Philosophy is also an excellent resource.

Week 17C Aristotle: Listen to the Aristotle tapes. Keep the seven world view questions in front of you and try to identify how Aristotle would answer them.

The information on the tapes may not be enough to answer all of the world view questions. If there are world view questions that you have difficulty with, go to Aristotle's Writings and search with keywords from the seven world view questions. ( See E-Text ) Aristotle uses titles that really help us identify exactly what he is talking about. The History of Philosophy is also an excellent resource. Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy is also a good resource.