Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Ralph McInerny, Ph.D.

International Catholic University Classics Collection, recorded in 1995

This course introduces the student to the major philosophers that have shaped the ideas of Western civilization, comparing and contrasting their thoughts, leaving the student with a map of the beginnings of philosophy up to the age of Descartes, a heritage that remains vital down to our own day.


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60-minute lectures

  1. Before Socrates

  2. Plato and the Forms

  3. Aristotle and After

  4. Augustine and Boethius

  5. Thomas Aquinas

  6. The End of Scholasticism


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