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History of Western Philosophy from the Pre-Socratic Period to the End of the Middle Ages

X20A (3 semester units in Philosophy)

This course introduces you to major philosophical concerns and concepts in Western thought, beginning with early texts in which philosophy first becomes distinguishable from myth and concluding with the philosophical debates of medieval Christianity. You explore philosophical questions relating to politics, metaphysics, natural science, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. The philosophers covered include Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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JOSEPH MICHAEL FEDEL, M.A., is a philosophy lecturer at Washtenaw Community College in Michigan. He studied philosophy at California State University East Bay. During that time, his focus shifted from philosophy to philosophy of religion, and he helped establish the option in religious studies and the minor in religious studies in his philosophy department.

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• $715 (EDP 867531)

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Textbook(s) for this course:
History of Western Philosophy, Volume I, The Classical Mind
Author: W. T. Jones
Publisher: Harcourt
Edition: 2nd
Publication Year: 1970
ISBN: 0155383124

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History of Western Philosophy, Volume II, The Medieval Mind
Author: W. T. Jones
Publisher: Harcourt
Edition: 2nd
Publication Year: 1969
ISBN: 0155383132

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