Lecture Notes

Week 1

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Week 2

Augustine's Proof for God from Truth (FCW 2.3-2.15)

Augustine on Good and Evil (FCW 2.16-3.1)

Week 3

Aristotle on Logical Fatalism

Augustine on Freedom vs. Foreknowledge (FCW 3.2-3.4)

Augustine on Time (Confessions 11)

Week 4

Boethius on Freedom vs. Foreknowledge (Consolation 5)

Anselm - The Ontological Argument

Week 5

Anselm - On Truth

Anselm - On Freedom of Choice

Anselm - On the Fall of the Devil

Week 6

Abelard - Ethics (plus Augustine & Aquinas)

Week 8

Avicenna - Proof of the Necessarily Existent

Al-Ghazali - Argument Against Eternity

Week 9

Averroes - Argument From Design

Aquinas - The Five Ways

Week 10

Aquinas - The Divine Attributes

Eriugena & Maimonides - Describing God (against)

Week 11

Aquinas & Duns Scotus - Describing God (for)

Aquinas, Scotus, & Ockham - Universals

Week 12

Avicenna - On the Human Soul

Aquinas - On the Human Soul

Aquinas - On Happiness

Week 13

Aquinas - On Law

Scotus & Ockham - Divine Command Theory

Divine Omnipotence & Freedom

Week 14

Ockham - On Freedom vs. Foreknowledge

Buridan - Some Logic Puzzles

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