This course will be concerned with selected figures and topics from
the foremost period of ancient Greek philosophy.  First, we shall
consider briefly the origin of philosophy in the West and the
relations between Greek and Asian thought.  Several of the very early
or so-called pre-Socratic schools of Greek philosophy will then be
discussed, with special emphasis on the works of two of the principal
philosophers of that period, Heraclitus and Parmenides.  After a
brief discussion of Socrates, the remainder of the course will be
devoted to a selected survey of works by two of the greatest - and
probably, the two most influential - philosophers of all time, Plato
and Aristotle.  Topics ot be treated include key problems in
metaphysics, theory of knowledge, philosophy of religion, and ethics.

Required readings will be mainly from the works of the great
philosophers themselves.  There will be two papers, each
appromimately five pages in length.  The mid-semester and the final
exams will be of the essay type.