These collected reading lists are shared here for the purposes of self-directed learning and the formation of independent reading groups. Categories are sorted roughly by adherence to pragmatism or to idealism including certain dependencies of concepts pertinent to later categories on prior ones without any definite hierarchy. Introductory courses are listed first within each category and then followed by the rest chronologically. All topics must be addressed and the last topics bring us back to the first....

Every text is available in PDF format on Genesis Library. Dictionary Watts, Niki. The Oxford New Greek Dictionary: Greek-English, English-Greek. Berkley Books. 2008 Collins English-Greek Dictionary. Collins. 1997 Niermeyer, Jan Frederik. Mediae Latinitatis lexicon minus: A medieval Latin-French English dictionary, (Latin Edition). Brill. 1976 Greek Winfred P. Lehmann and Jonathan Slocum. Classical Greek Online - Series Introduction https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/grkol Balme, Maurice and Lawall, Gilbert. Athenaze, An Introduction to Ancient Greek. Oxford University Press....

The objective of this course is to improve on a philosophical understanding of work in the field of ancient rhetoric, by completing a reading of texts in translation derived primarily from the Greek and Roman period of classical antiquity. These texts were preserved through the later medieval period by Islamic and Jewish philosophers of the Middle Eastern golden age, before being reassessed again during the enlightenment period of early modern philosophy....

I. In the Hands of Responsible Authorities Deep inside of Yucca Mountain gets stored a frightening proliferation of barrels of permanently disposed nuclear waste.1 At least, this would be the case if the American public could reach the reasonable agreement2 on a choice of location to store our nation’s ever-increasing surplus of nuclear waste.3 The waste is currently left to contaminate underdeveloped on-location temporary storage next to refineries. In the event of Yucca Mountain’s theoretical usage, one might expect access to such a strategically invaluable location to be carefully protected....

“Body am I, and soul”—thus speaks the child. …But the awakened and knowing say: body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.1 In 1643, Descartes was asked in a letter from Princess Elisabeth, how a thinking substance can affect a corporeal animal, so as to produce ‘voluntary action’.2 Yablo claims recently, that Descartes’ division of the substances has resulted in being the primary motivating force behind the great, longstanding philosophical debates surrounding dualism between the mind and the body....