Lecture Notes

Week 1

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Week 2

Augustine's Proof From Truth for God

Augustine on Good and Evil

Week 3

Logical Fatalism (Aristotle)

Augustine on Freedom vs Foreknowledge

Augustine on Time and Eternity

Week 4

Boethius on Freedom vs Foreknowledge

The Ontological Argument for God's Existence

Week 5

Anselm on Truth

Week 6

Anselm on Freedom

Anselm on the Fall of the Devil

Week 7

Abelard's Ethics (and the DDE)

Week 8

Proof of the Necessarily Existent (Avicenna)

Argument Against Eternity (Al-Ghazali)

Week 9

Argument From Design (Averroes)

The Five Ways (Aquinas)

Week 10

The Divine Attributes

Describing God

Week 11

Universals

Avicenna on the Soul

Week 12

Aquinas on the Soul

Aquinas on Happiness

Lecture notes will be posted weekly

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