Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the greatest of ancient Greek philosophers. 

This course is an introduction to some of the key elements in their thought. 

It considers Socrates’ ethical views and his method. 

It considers Plato on the soul and its immortality in the Phaedo and, in particular, on the perfectly just city-state in the Republic. (The latter includes above all a consideration of Plato on the Philosopher King and the Forms and the Form of the Good.) 

Finally, it considers Aristotle on among other things language and logic in the Organon and on change and cause in the Physics and on “happiness” in the Nichomachean Ethics.