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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 2436yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
  • Introduction to Aristotle
  • Subjects and Predicates
  • Universals and Particulars
  • Substance and Subject
  • Subjects of Change
Readings
  • Aristotle's Categories
Practice Exercises
  • Subjects and Predicates
  • Substances & Subject

Videos
  • Matter, Form and Change
  • Nature
  • Is Form or Matter Nature?
  • The Four Causes
  • Natural Teleology
  • Soul As Cause
Readings
  • Aristotle's Physics
  • Aristotle's On the Soul
Practice Exercises
  • Change & Nature
  • Causes in Nature
  • Aristotelian Souls

Videos
  • The Eternity of Motion
  • The First Mover of the Cosmos
  • The Unmoved Mover
  • The Goal of Life
  • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
  • Happiness and Living Well
  • Pleasure and the Human Function
  • Virtue of Character
  • Godlike Virtue
Readings
  • Aristotle's Metaphysics
  • Aristotle's Ethics
Practice Exercises
  • The Unmoved Mover
  • Aristotle's Ethics

Videos
  • Introduction to Epicurus
  • Nature and the Gods
  • Therapeutic Philosophy
  • Death Is Nothing To Us
  • What's Wrong With Death?
  • Ataraxia
  • Restricting Desire
  • Enduring Pain
Readings
  • The Letter to Menoeceus
  • The Letter of Epicurus to Herodotus
  • On the nature of the gods
  • Principal Doctrines
Practice Exercises
  • Gods and Death
  • Pleasure and Pain

Videos
  • Introduction to Stoicism 
  • God in Nature
  • Following Nature
  • A Good Flow of Life
  • The Goal vs. The Target
  • The Lazy Argument
  • What Is Up To Us
  • Stoic Compatibilism
  • Conclusion
Readings
  • The Enchiridion
  • On the nature of the gods
  • De Fato (On Fate)
  • De Finibus (On Ends)
Practice Exercises
  • Stoic Natural Philosophy and Ethics
  • Fate and Human Action

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