Ancient Philosophy of Mind 03-AP-APM
Week 1: Introduction into the philosophy of mind.
Week 2: Psychology in the Greek archaic epics (1).
Week 3: Psychology in the Greek archaic epics (2).
Week 4: Pre-Socratic ideas concerning the human and divine mind (1).
Week 5: Pre-Socratic ideas concerning the human and divine mind (2).
Week 6: Plato’s philosophy of mind (1).
Week 7: Plato’s philosophy of mind (2).
Week 8: Aristotle’s philosophy of mind (1).
Week 9: Aristotle’s philosophy of mind (2).
Week 10: Stoic concept of mind (1).
Week 11: Stoic concept of mind (2).
Week 12: Epicurean concept of mind (1).
Week 13: Epicurean concept of mind (2).
Week 14: Mind in Plotinus (1).
Week 15: Mind in Plotinus (2).
Module learning aims
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Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences
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Bibliography
Bremmer J., The early Greek concept of soul, Princeton 1983.
Long H.S., A Study of the Doctrine of Methempsychosis in Greece from Pythagoras to Plato, Princeton 1948.
Frede, D. & Burkhard, R. (eds.), Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy. Berlin - New York, Walter de Gruyter 2009.
Long, A. A. Greek Models of Mind and Self; Revealing antiquity; Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015.
Annas, J., Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind; Hellenistic culture and society; University of California Press: Berkeley, 1992.
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