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.