Course Information
Course title
 History of Western Philosophy (Ⅰ) 
Semester
 109-1 
Designated for
 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS  DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY  
Instructor
 I-Kai Jeng 
Curriculum Number
 Phl1050 
Curriculum Identity Number
 104 30010 
Class
  
Credits
 3.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
 Half 
Required/
Elective
 Preassign 
Time
 Tuesday 7,8,9,10(14:20~18:20) 
Remarks
 The upper limit of the number of students: 88. 
Ceiba Web Server
 http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1091Phl1050_ 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
 Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

THE AIM OF THIS ONE-SEMESTER COURSE IS TO INTRODUCE STUDENTS TO THE BASIC IDEAS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEK AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS, AND TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR MORE ADVANCED STUDY IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY. THIS COURSE CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING PARTS:
1) GREEK PHILOSOPHY
1.1) THE EARLY GREEK THOUGHT
1.2) THE CRITICAL PERIOD
1.3) THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
1.4) THE TRANSCENDENTAL PERIOD
2) THE PATRISTIC PERIOD
3) MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
2.1) THE 8TH AND 9TH CENTURIES
2.2) THE 11TH AND 12TH CENTURIES
2.3) THE 12TH AND 13TH CENTURIES
2.4) THE 13TH CENTURY UNTIL 1277
2.5) THE 13TH CENTURY AFTER 1277
2.6) THE 14TH CENTURY
2.7) THE 15TH CENTURY 

Course Objective
 AFTER THE LECTURES STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO
1)GIVE A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH PERIOD OF THOUGHT.
2)IDENTIFY THE PROBLEMS CONCERNED IN EACH PERIOD OF THOUGHT.
3)GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF HOW THE PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT EVOLVES.
4)HAVE A BASIC IDEA OF EACH PHILOSOPHER’S THOUGHT. 
Course Requirement
  
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
  
Office Hours
  
Designated reading
  
References
 指定閱讀：
ANTHONY KENNY, ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY VOL. 1 (OXFORD, 2006).
ANTHONY KENNY, MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY: A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY VOL. 2 (OXFORD, 2007).
參考書目：
T. IRWIN, CLASSICAL THOUGHT (OXFORD, 1989).
E. ZELLER, OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY (BRISTOL, 1997).
KIRK, RAVEN AND SCHOFIELD, THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS (CAMBRIDGE,1993).
A. A. LONG, THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY (CAMBRIDGE,1999).
D. SEDLEY, THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY (CAMBRIDGE, 2003).
D. LUSCOMBE, MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (OXFORD, 1997).
J. MARENBON, LATER MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY (LONDON, 1991).
A. H. ARMSTRONG, THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATER GREEK AND EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY (CAMBRIDGE, 1967).
A. S. MCGRADE (ED.), THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY (CAMBRIDGE, 2005). 
Grading
    
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
第1週
 9/15  導論 
第2週
 9/22  單元一：我該如何生活？柏拉圖《蘇格拉底的辯辭》 
第3週
 9/29  《蘇格拉底的辯辭》 
第4週
 10/06  亞里斯多德《尼各馬科倫理學》 
第5週
 10/13  亞里斯多德《尼各馬科倫理學》 
第6週
 10/20  亞里斯多德《尼各馬科倫理學》 
第7週
 10/27  單元二：自然與規約．先蘇斷簡（Anaximander、Heraclitus、Parmenides） 
第8週
 11/03  安提丰；《理想國》卷二 
第9週
 11/10  期中考 
第10週
 11/17  亞里斯多德《物理學》 
第11週
 11/24  亞里斯多德《形上學》卷一章一、二；《論靈魂》卷二章一、二；發放講義 
第12週
 12/01  古代東方、現代西方：孟子、盧梭、達爾文 
第13週
 12/08  單元三：理性與信仰的對話．柏拉圖《游敘弗倫》篇 
第14週
 12/15  《游敘弗倫》．al-Ghazali《哲人的自相矛盾》 
第15週
 12/22  《哲人的自相矛盾》 
第16週
 12/29  期末考