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David Keyt
PHIL 520
Seattle Campus
Class description
This seminar is designed to give a graduate student the confidence to offer his or her own course on Aristotle or to discuss Aristotle in a course on the history of ancient philosophy. Since there are others in the department who regularly offer courses on Aristotle’s ethics and politics, this course will be devoted to selected readings from the Organon, the Physics, the Metaphysics, and the De Anima. One goal of the course is to show just how philosophically attractive many of Aristotle’s principles are once they are purged of the odd or outdated ideas that often accompany, but are by no means consequences of, them. TEXTS: Aristotle: Selections, Gail Fine and Terence Irwin; Aristotle, Christopher Shields.
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