PHI 501 - Wisdom of Classical Philosophy - Pierre Grimes: University of Philosophical Research

Website: http://www.uprs.edu

This course surveys the origins and outcomes of the early thinkers who have come to be associated with the very core and foundations of Classical Philosophy. It begins with a study of the Pre-Socratic thinkers and traces the evolution of the concepts of consciousness as developed by some of the world's greatest philosophers. Through a study of Pre-Socratic philosophers we glimpse into the origins and early development of philosophy, which later led to a system of thought developed by Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus. These ageless insights into the nature of man and the world are profound as well as lastingly beautiful.

Pre-Socratics
Session 1 The Beginning: Thales, Anaximander & Anaximenes as Understood by Aristotle and Aetius
Session 2 The Wisdom of Heraclitus and Empedocles Explained
Session 3 The Eleatics: Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus Revisited

Plato's Philosophy
Session 4 The Apology: The Divine Mission of Socrates
Session 5 The Phaedo: The Separation of the Soul as the Condition for Wisdom
Session 6 The Central Idea of Hellenic Thought: Plato's Ion and the First Book of Plato's Republic
Session 7 The Symposium: The Steps Leading to the Vision of Reality
Session 8 Plato's Timaeus

Neo-Platonics
Session 9 Plotinus: An Exploration of Philosophy as Mysticism and Beauty
Session 10 Proclus: The First Systematic Philosophy and Pseudo-Dionysius

Pierre Grimes, Ph.D. -- Comparative Philosophy, University of the Pacific, California. Professor of Philosophy, Golden West College. President, the Noetic Society, Inc. Director, Open Mind Academy. Author of "Is It All Relative" and "Philosophical Midwifery."

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