Location: Online
Mode: Online
Delivery Notes:

Online on Demand (Asynchronous)

Proposed contents and delivery notes

Tuesday, 3pm - 5pm

The unit will be taught in seminar mode, primarily using the unit reader as a point of reference. Students will also be assigned a worksheet on the readings after each class. A recording of the seminar will be available after the class (usually the morning after; sent out via ARK).

The topics covered:

29 July Introduction / Presocratics part one

5 August Presocratics part two - Heraclitus and Parmenides

19 August Presocratics part three - atomists and Introduction to Plato

2 September Plato part two - Meno Phaedo

16 September Plato part thee - The Republic

7 October Aristotle part one

21 October Aristotle part two

Contact hours 36
Total time commitment 150
Start date 28 Jul, 2025
Census date: 19 Aug, 2025
End date: 14 Nov, 2025
Academic staff: Dr Cal Ledsham
Textbook(s):

Unit code: AP3100C

Unit status: Approved (Minor revision)

Points: 18.0

Unit level: Undergraduate Level 3

Unit discipline: Philosophy

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