The Basics

Introduction to Philosophy

What’s it All About?

The Greeks

Socrates

Biography and Philosophy

 

The Socratic Method

from Plato’s Meno

Plato

Biography and Philosophy

 

Excerpts from the Republic

Notes on Governance

Aristotle

Biography and Philosophy

 

Excerpts from Nicomachean Ethics

Notes on Virtue

 

Excerpts from The Politics

Notes on Good Governance

 

Epicurus

Biography and Philosophy

Principle Doctrines

40 Principle Ideas

 

Far East

Confucius

Biography and Philosophy

 

From the Analects

Excerpt from The Analects of Confucius

Taoism

Text and Notes

Tao Te Ching

Excerpts from the Tao Te Ching

 

Legalism

Biography and Philosophy

 

Mohism 

Biography and Philosophy

Sun Tzu

Biography and Philosophy