Platonism (MP3 download) Education

Platonism (MP3 download) EducationBy Gregory Salmieri Plato authored the world's first philosophical system. He offered unified answers to questions ranging from metaphysics to politics, mathematics to sex. Studying his thought sheds light on the history and nature of philosophy. This course is an examination of Plato's system with an emphasis on its centerpiece: the theory of Forms. The theory of Forms is Plato's solution to the problem of concepts (or "universals"). The course

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and provides convincing evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition

comparing and evaluating how men have flourished or perished depending on the political principles that defined the social systems under which they lived

argued that the Church should confine itself to spiritual matters

Romantic Literature as Illustrating the Role of Philosophy in Art

and of its concomitant right to forcibly repel those who threatened that right

Peikoff takes a wider

drawing out the underlying philosophical premises—such as non-objectivity

and no work has had a greater impact on philosophy than his Critique of Pure Reason

Spencer: reality as unknowable

The course provides an understanding of the federal government

Altruism as Appeasement