Reading the Greats

Independent Task

Your task in weeks 1 and 2 is to listen to three episodes each week of the History of Philosophy without any Gaps podcast.

Further reading critical of the western philosophical canon

While you are not expected to read these texts, if you are interested in learning more about the critiques of the western philosophical canon throughout your four years of study, these texts are a good place to start

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This is a collection of Plato's dialogues. We are just reading the Ion. You will find it in the contents page.

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This is an ebook of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. We will be only looking at the sections called Book I and Book II

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This is Hobbes' very large book, Leviathan. We are mainly looking at Chapter 17, but you may also find it helpful to look at chapters 13 and 14 as well.

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This is Cicero's book On Duties. We are only looking at the section called "Book One"

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