HIST PHIL TO RENAISS

A study of the history of Western philosophical thought and culture from its advent in ancient Greece to the Renaissance, emphasizing the great minds and ideas of Western civilization and how these have helped to shape our cultural landscape, focusing on the most significant ideological continuities and ruptures that constitute the historical changes of the Western world. Special emphasis is placed on shifts in conceptual frameworks and narrative forms found in the works of Greek dramatists, the early natural philosophers, Socratic philosophy, and the philosophical systems of Plato, Aristotle, the hedonists, the stoics, and Christian theologians, such as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.