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Dec 26, 2024
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PHIL 610 - Plato (3 units)
Intensive study of some of Plato’s writings, e.g., the Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. state a thesis about a key Platonic dialogue, explain the thesis, and provide evidence, textual and philosophical, in its defense.
2. explain and interpret some central ideas associated with Platonic philosophy.
3. distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize conceptual relationships, in a Platonic dialogue and/or a secondary source that comments critically on it.
4. show what is at stake, for current philosophical debates, in Plato’s philosophical work.
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