Handouts on The Duane Berquist Lectures

Beginning Fragments

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Beginning Fragments #

Introductory Note to the Beginning Fragments #

foreword · Presocratics 01 Beginning Fragments - Notes · 3 pages · PDF · 01-Beginning_Fragments-Notes.pdf

Covers: Introduction to the earliest philosophical fragments: the Seven Wise Men, the Delphic exhortations ‘Know Thyself’ and ‘Nothing too much’, Heraclitus DK 116, and a preview of the order of topics (The Royal Fragment, what is common, beginnings of philosophy in desire and in reason, the roads and the first statement).

Natural Fragments

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Natural Fragments #

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The Natural Fragments of the First Philosophers #

reading · Presocratics 01 · 10 pages · PDF · 01-The_Natural_Fragments.pdf

Covers: Collection of Presocratic fragments (DK), from Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, through to Democritus.

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On the Natural Fragments (Natural Fragments of the First Philosophers) #

note · Presocratics 02 · 51 pages · PDF · 02-On_the_Natural_Fragments.pdf

Natural Theology Fragments

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Natural Theology Fragments #

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Natural Theology and Religion Fragments #

reading · Presocratics 3 (Natural Theology Fragments) · 4 pages · PDF · 01-The_Natural_Theology_Fragments.pdf

Covers: Presocratic fragments (Diels-Kranz) on natural theology and religion, beginning with Xenophanes and Heraclitus and ending with Anaxagoras DK 12.

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Natural Theology Fragments #

reading · Presocratics Natural Theology Fragments (02 - On the Natural Theology Fragments) · 7 pages · PDF · 02-On_the_Natural_Theology_Fragments.pdf

Plato: Dialogue and Logic

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Plato: Dialogue and Logic #

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A Division of the Meno #

division · Meno Division of the Meno · 6 pages · PDF · 01-Division_of_the_Meno.pdf

Covers: Outline of the whole Meno (Stephanus 70A-100B): Meno’s question whether virtue can be taught, and the three conversations (what is virtue; how one can investigate the unknown; whether virtue can be taught), ending with Socrates asking Meno to calm Anytus.

Plato: On the Soul

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Plato: On the Soul #

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Division of the Phaedo #

division · Phaedo 01 · 9 pages · PDF · 01-Division_of_the_Phaedo.pdf

Covers: Outline of the whole Phaedo, from the framing scene (57A-59E) through the last day of Socrates (60A-118), including the discussions on whether the philosopher should be willing to die, the two parts on the soul’s immortality, the muthos about the soul after death (107C-115A), and Socrates’ death. Uses Stephanus, not Bekker, numbering (57A-118).

Logic

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Logic #

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Foreword to the Categories #

foreword · Categories Foreword · 3 pages · PDF · 01-Foreward_to_the_Categories.pdf

Covers: Introduction to Aristotle’s Categories, considering its matter (names said of many things, genera and species), end, form (division into ante-predicaments, predicaments, post-predicaments) and author (Aristotle).

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The Four Kinds of Opposite #

note · Categories Chapter 10 · 7 pages · PDF · 01-Opposites_Ch.10.pdf

Aristotle: Natural Philosophy

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Aristotle: Natural Philosophy #

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Foreword to the Elements of Euclid #

foreword · EuclidElements · 5 pages · PDF · MATH_Foreward_to_Euclids_Elements.pdf

Covers: Introduction to Euclid’s Elements, unfolding its matter (geometry and arithmetic), end, form (how things are defined and demonstrated), and author (Euclid).

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First Book of Natural Hearing, Reading One #

reading · Physics Reading 1 · 1 pages · PDF · NH_01-Reading_1.pdf

Ethics

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Ethics #

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Thomas Aquinas, Proemium to Practical Philosophy (beginning of his laying out of the 1st Bk of Nicomachean Ethics) #

reading · AquinasCommentary Proemium to Practical Philosophy · 3 pages · PDF · 01-Aquinass_Proemium_to_Practical_Philosophy.pdf

Covers: Translation of Aquinas’s proemium to his Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics: wisdom orders; the twofold order (of parts to each other, and to an end); four ways order relates to reason (natural, logical, moral, and productive/artistic); and the division of moral philosophy into monastic (ethics), domestic (economics) and political.

Poetics

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Poetics #

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A Foreword to the Poetics #

foreword · Poetics 01 · 13 pages · PDF · 01-A_Foreward_to_the_Poetics.pdf

Covers: Introduction to the Poetics: what a poet is (maker of likenesses of human life in words vs. maker of verses), the matter/subject of the science, its dependence on experience of literary works, literary history, demonstration from the end of tragedy, and Aristotle’s treatment of species (tragedy and epic) before genus.

Aristotle: First Philosophy (Wisdom)

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Aristotle: First Philosophy (Wisdom) #

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The Matter and Order of Wisdom #

paper · Metaphysics WS01 · 54 pages · PDF · WS01_The_Matter_and_Order_of_Wisdom.pdf

Covers: Essay on what wisdom (First Philosophy/Metaphysics) is about and the order of its matters, and the order of the fourteen books; builds on the Proemium of Book 1 (980a21-983a23) read with Aquinas’s exposition.

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