History of Early Modern Philosophy Reading List

Medieval - Renaissance Period (500-1600 ce) Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite 5th c. ce Syria/Unknown Chronicle (Known Also as the Chronicle of Zuqnin). Part III (anthology) Paul Rorem Pseudo-Dionysius: A Commentary on the Texts and an Introduction to Their Influence Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus 477-524 ce Italy (Rome) Consolation of Philosophy. 525 Philoponus, John 490-570 ce Egypt (Byzantine) On Aristotle physics 1.4-9 On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 On Aristotle Physics 4.10-14 On Aristotle posterior analytics 1....

February 26, 2020

Contemporary Topics in Philosophy - Collected Reading Lists

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....

January 9, 2020

Ancient Greek & Latin Genesis Library Learning Resources

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....

December 25, 2019

Ancient Rhetoric (c. 700 bc - 500 ce) - Reading List for Philosophers

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....

December 22, 2019

Intro to Marxist Economics Book Reviews

Review of Ernest Mandel - Introduction to Marxist Economics Ernest Mandel was a Marxist politician and theorist throughout the 20th century, living in many Northern and Eastern European countries during that time. He published an enormous number of writings in his lifetime, mostly analyzing different parts of Marxist economic theory, including his book “An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory” published in 1967. In regard to his participation in the Fourth International, European followers of Trotsky after his outcasting by Stalin, he is quoted as having said that, “The working class’s periodic upsurges into direct action create at the same time the conditions for resolving the crisis of the subjective factor, on condition that revolutionaries have been active in the movement for long enough, effectively enough and on a sufficiently wide enough scale....

April 12, 2016