Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Porphyry of Tyre, Iamblichus Chalcidensis / Iamblichus of Apamea); meeting of philosophy and Christianity (Celsus, Libanius of Antiochia, Hypatia of Alexandria)

Ancient philosophy

• What is philosophy? Its purpose and meaning.
• Presocratic philosophy. The school of Miletus. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes.
• The school of Elea. Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Melissus of Samos
• Heraclitus
• Pythagoras and the Pythagoreanism: Anaxagoras, Empedocles
• Sophists of ancient Greece
• Life and teaching of Socrates
• Life of Plato and his periods of activity
• Plato concerning the ideas, his theory of anamnesis and his moral philosophy
• Life of Aristotle; classification of sciences
• Metaphysics and logic of Aristotle; his theory concerning ousia
• Cynicism
• Stoicism and epicureanism
• Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Porphyry of Tyre, Iamblichus Chalcidensis / Iamblichus of Apamea); meeting of philosophy and Christianity (Celsus, Libanius of Antiochia, Hypatia of Alexandria)