Alfred J. Freddoso home page
http://www.nd.edu/~afreddos/
This is the home page of Alfred J. Freddoso, a professor of Thomistic Studies at University of Notre Dame. It contains course material, such as lecture outlines, handouts, syllabi, and study questions for a number of courses. Most courses concern aspects of ancient (including Presocratic) and medieval philosophy, and philosophy of religion, with particular attention to scholasticism and Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274). There are also notes for a course on philosophy of causation (historical and contemporary), and for an introductory philosophy class. A wide variety of supplementary material, ranging from primary and secondary source texts, maps, and some of the author's own translations, can be found within the individual course pages. Freddoso's own philosophical writings, published and unpublished, are available, as is his in-progress translation of Aquinas' Summa Theologica, with commentary. Also available is the complete text of Pope John Paul II's Fides et Ratio, with accompanying commentary and study notes. This site would be of interest to undergraduates with some basic familiarity with the topics covered, who are seeking revision material or further information. It would also be of use to teachers designing courses in any of the topics covered.
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Ancient commentators on Aristotle project
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/philosophy/research/commentat
The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project is run by the Department of Philosophy at King's College London, and this is its website. The project aims to make available in English translation the principal ancient commentaries on the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC). This site makes available online several documents related to the project. It should be noted, however, that the translated commentaries themselves are unavailable here (links are provided for those wishing to purchase these online). Nonetheless, researchers of Aristotle will find several items of interest. Chief among these is an extensive bibliographical guide to recent works on the commentators. This is an annotated list of articles and books relating to the ancient Greek, Arabic and Latin commentaries on Aristotle. Also provided here are lists of volumes produced by the project, including translations and explanatory works.
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Ancient Egyptian religion
http://www.guardians.net/egypt/religion.htm
'Ancient Egyptian Religion' is a website that serves as a gateway to a short but useful and well-maintained collection of links relating to the religious beliefs of ancient Egyptians. The list, compiled by Andrew Bayuk, is lightly annotated. The materials chosen cover items such as: deities; beliefs; practices; culture; mythology; priesthood; history; philosophy; symbols; death; funeral; embalming; and tombs. The site forms part of the 'Guardian's Egypt' website, which features various other aspects of Egypt and Egyptology. Accessible and informative, this resource is suitable for undergraduate use.
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Ancient Greece
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM
Ancient Greece is a website consisting of a general introduction to Greek history and culture from the archaic period into the Hellenistic. There are pages on the culture and organisation of the city states Sparta and Athens, and on the Delian League (centred on Delos) and the Theban Hegemony. Other pages describe the background to, and consequences of, the important wars and conflicts fought by the Greeks. Philip II and Alexander the Great both receive attention. As well as describing the historical events, the website introduces some of the key elements of Greek philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to Hellenistic thought. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are all featured, with extracts from their key works reproduced. Pages on Greek literature and drama include extracts from Homer's 'Odyssey' and Thucydides' 'Peloponnesian War'. The origins and significance of comedy and tragedy are explained. The site also includes two rather rudimentary maps of the Greek regions and cities, along with a categorised list of links to external sites. The links are not well maintained. 'Ancient Greece' forms part of an online courseware unit from Washington State University's 'World Civilizations' project. It is targeted at students about to begin university and first year undergraduates.
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Ancient Greek philosophy
http://www.philosophy.gr/
The Ancient Greek Philosophy website provides an overview of a number of key figures in classical philosophy. Although the site gives basic information about ancient Greek philosophy as a whole, only the presocratic philosophers are covered in detail (unfortunately, it appears that work on the site was abandoned before it was completed). The thinkers covered are the Ionians; the Pythagorean School; the Eleatic School; and the Pluralists and Atomists. A brief outline of the life and work of each philosopher is given, along with extracts from extant works. This resource may be helpful for those seeking an introduction to this area of ancient philosophy.
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Archelogos project
http://www.archelogos.com/archelogos/
The Archelogos Project website is the home of an ambitious and exciting project, based at the University of Edinburgh. The project's aim is the creation of an electronic database recording all the philosophical arguments that can be extracted from the works of the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. The database, which is designed for online viewing, is still a work in progress, but substantial sections of text are already available. Arguments are presented hierarchically: each of the main points can be expanded to reveal the sub-arguments. Citations are given for each argument's location in the original work, plus links to both the Greek texts and English translations. There are also notes on alternative interpretations of words and phrases, and references to other passages where similar themes occur. Analyses have been commissioned from specialists in ancient philosophy, and are overseen by an academic board drawn from universities around the world. The Archelogos Database is one of several interesting and innovative on-going University of Edinburgh projects relating to ancient philosophy; links to the others are also provided.
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Aristoteles Latinus
http://www.hiw.kuleuven.ac.be/dwmc/al/
Aristoteles Latinus is a project aiming to produce a multi-volume critical edition of all the medieval translations of Aristotle from Greek to Latin, including a critical apparatus evidencing the way in which Aristotle's texts became known in the West. The project is under development at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Catholic University, Louvain and it is receiving support from the International Union of Academies. Twenty-seven volumes have already been published during the last 50 years and they are listed on the project website. They include the entire corpus of Aristotle's logical works; his Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics; and several versions of the physical and technical works. The complete texts are available in printed form and in an electronic database (ALD-1) on CD-Rom. The two are not identical, however, as much of the critical apparatus, indexes and other tools have not been included in the electronic version. On the website there is also a list of editions in progress as well as a list of future editions to be considered. There is other useful information on the website including information about related research projects, lectures and events.
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Augustine of Hippo
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/augustine/
The Augustine of Hippo site was initially created by James J. O'Donnell to support a series of online seminars. The site has grown to provide access to a range of resources for the study of Saint Augustine of Hippo, many of which are authored by O'Donnell. The site is divided into a number of sections and navigated through frames. Sections include: an introduction to the life and works of Augustine; texts and translations; commentaries; research materials; a record of the online seminars; and digital images relating to Augustine. The introductory section includes a number of essays written by O'Donnell as well as links to resources such as encyclopaedia entries. The texts and translations section brings together a number of online works of Augustine ranging from the City of God to sermons. Many of the texts are available in both Latin and English translation. Perhaps the most significant resource available in this section is O'Donnell's own edition and commentary on Augustine's Confessions (Augustine: Confessions, a text and commentary. Oxford: 1992. ISBN 0198143788). Research materials include bibliographies, maps, and a collection of online research papers. Throughout the site are scattered annotated links to other Augustinian resources on the Web.
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Boethius
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/boethius.html
The Boethius website is the work of James O'Donnell of Georgetown University. It focuses on the Roman philosopher, poet and politician who lived from ca. 480 to ca. 525 CE, offering the Latin text of the 'Consolation of Philosophy' with translation tools, a line-by-line commentary, an English translation and a bibliography. It is intended as a teaching resource for students of classics and/or history and for this it serves its purpose very well. It also provides links to T. Mathiesen's (University of Indiana) Latin text of Boethius's 'De musica' and a working but out-of-date link to the International Boethius Society and their journal 'Carmen Philosophiae'.
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Cathal Woods : Greek translations
http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~rwoods/thinking.htm
This website publishes new translations of Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates' Defense (also known as The Apology), Crito and the death scene from Phaedo and is part of Dr Woods' personal page. The new translation has been prepared by Dr Woods and his student Ryan Pack with the intention of offering a good online translation for those who cannot (or prefer not) to visit a library. This is a good idea, and hopefully more lecturers will make available important contents online. Students in particular will appreciate this website.
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Center for Hellenic Traditions
http://www.hellenic.hu/
This is the website of the "Center for Hellenic Traditions" established in 2004 at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. The site reflects the activities and publication profile of this centre. Its proclaimed aim is to "promote innovative research into the history of Hellenic culture in a number of less frequented research areas". Thus, the research fields include religion, theology, philosophy, literature, history of art, while the geographical area covered comprises the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East and India from Antiquity to the Early Modern period. The site informs about the workshops and colloquia organised by the center and introduces the most recent publications. The center is also part of a larger project of digitisation of Syriac manuscripts in Southern India. A call for application for fellowships is posted on the site. The titles in the lecture series hosted by the centre gives a god overview of the research interests of the centre and of the good academic reputation it has acquired among specialists.
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Center for the study of the great ideas
http://www.thegreatideas.org/
The website for the Center of the Study of the Great Ideas aims to provide an online presence that furthers the work of the Center's mission to prove that 'philosophy is everybody's business'. Addressing the questions as to what we should seek in life and how we should go about our search sums up the life and work of Dr. Mortimer J. Adler (1902 - 2001), who founded the Center and whose academic credentials include the post of Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. The site aims to make the ideas of Dr. Adler widely available and while membership options at a range of prices are offered, the site contains a sufficient amount of open access material to provide comprehensive introductory insights. Under the headings such as 'The Great Ideas', 'The Great Books' and 'Liberal Education', the basic concepts of the Center are introduced fully, with a biography of Dr. Adler and a useful range of links. A search engine is available, which will yield results when searched by author name or subject. This is a wide-ranging site, with a large amount of thought-provoking material.
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Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition
http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/cspt/index.php
The Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition is part of the School of Classics at Trinity College Dublin and aims to further the study of the history of Platonism (including Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Platonism). The Centre's website offers details of its undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Platonic Studies, as well as giving information on Centre members and faculty (with details of their research and publications). Newsletters of the Centre, dating back to 1999, can also be found online: these provide information on work in progress, lectures, events, visiting scholars, and the activities of the Centre's members, as well as details of conferences held elsewhere on themes relating to the Centre's work.
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Confessions of Augustine : an electronic edition
http://www.stoa.org/hippo/
This resource is an online reprint of 'Augustine: Confessions' a text and commentary by James J. O'Donnell (Oxford: 1992; ISBN 0-19-814378-8). The text of the Confessions is in the original Latin, and the commentary in English. For each of the 13 books of the Confessions, a link is provided to the introductory commentary on that book. Likewise, every section of the text is linked to extensive comments on the section. Users can also enjoy a sample of a number of frescoes on the life of Augustine (350-430 AD) done by Benozzo Gozzoli in San Gimignano in the 15th century. The site is user-friendly, with frames and no-frames versions available, and search engines are provided.
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Cornell University Library historical monographs collection
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/c/cdl/
The Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection website provides free access to facsimiles of over 400 historical monographs. A number are of interest to ancient and modern history of philosophy. These include English translations of: Aristotle's (384-322 BCE) On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration; The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge, by Johann Fichte (1762-1814); The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature, by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860); The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in three volumes; and Otto Weininger's (1880-1903) Sex and Character. There is also a facsimile of Moses Maimonides' (1135-1204) Moreh Nevukhim (Guide for the Perplexed), translated into Hebrew. As this is an historical archive, the translations and texts should not be treated as definitive or up-to-date (the Comte, for instance, is recorded as being 'freely translated' and condensed by the author Harriet Martineau); the site is primarily of historical philosophical interest. The database may be browsed or searched by author/title.
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Epictetus
http://szymona.net/philosophy/texts/epictetus/
This is a very simple website containing a complete electronic text (in English translation) of The Discourses by the ancient philosopher Epictetus (c. AD50-120). The Discourses record exchanges between Epictetus and his students after formal teaching had concluded for the day. They are a record of intimate, though earnest, discussions in which Epictetus gets his students to consider carefully what the philosophic life, for a Stoic, consists of, and how to live it oneself. A wide range of topics are touched upon, from friendship to illness, from fear to poverty, on how to acquire and maintain tranquillity, and why we should not be angry with other people. The electronic text is divided into four books, with each book containing as many as thirty chapters.
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Epicurus and Epicurean philosophy
http://www.epicurus.net/
Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy is a website which aims to introduce Epicureanism both to the serious student of philosophy and to anyone seeking useful and inspiring ideas. Epicurus (341-270 BC) helped to lay the intellectual foundations for modern science and for secular individualism, with many aspects of his system still highly relevant some twenty-three centuries after they were first taught to his students at his school, known as 'The Garden', in Athens. The site includes: translations of Epicurean texts (including works by, as well as Epicurus himself: Diogenes Laertius; Lucretius; Cicero; Horace; Lucian; Cornelius Nepos; Plutarch; and Lactantius); background information on the period in which he and his followers wrote; general material on ancient philosophy; and pages of annotated links to other relevant online resources. There is also a discussion list associated with the site.
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GMU ancient Greek philosophy page
http://www.gmu.edu/courses/phil/ancient/index.htm
The GMU ancient Greek philosophy website is the home page of a course that runs at George Mason University. It provides access to a wealth of resources for the study of the Pre-Socratic philosophers and Plato and Aristotle. There are course notes, syllabi, and links to other classical resources with summaries of their contents. This website is clearly a useful tool for all those studying courses in ancient Greek philosophy and particularly for those who are studying the Pre-Socratics. Rose Cherubin, author of the site, is a member of faculty at George Mason University.
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History of ancient philosophy
http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/index.html
History of Ancient Philosophy is a highly organised and detailed piece of online courseware developed by Marc Cohen of the Philosophy Department at the University of Washington. The site will be most helpful for instructors and students working on ancient Greek philosophy from the Milesians through Aristotle. In addition to all his lecture notes Cohen has, in the Vital Statistics section, posted the course description; his syllabus; his library reserve list; examination questions (in PDF format); and the course schedule. In the Texts and Essays section, he has provided a very useful collection of links to online primary and secondary sources; databases; and special search engines devoted to ancient philosophy. There are other links arranged under the headings Ancient Greek Science; Maps; Art and Photographs; Paleography; Philosophy Journals; Ancient Philosophy Links; and Other Useful Links. Cohen also has other subsites here entitled Just for Fun and Ancient Philosophy in the News, with recent relevant news items. These subpages are clearly meant to spark students' interest, but other visitors will find them informative as well.
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History of psychology
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/historyofpsych.html
This is an extensive and enjoyable resource outlining the history of psychology largely from a philosophical perspective, beginning with the Presocratics and continuing through to the late 20th century. The site is divided into four main sections covering different eras, and within each section can be found short discussions of a particular figure, movement, or event. Historical figures up until the 'pre-psychology' era are presented in terms of both their general views and any particular ideas they had regarding minds and human cognition. There are also, in each section, links to a great deal of subsidiary information in the form of primary source texts, literature and poetry, diagrams, and timelines, all of which combine to make this a true history of ideas. The author is George Boeree, a Professor of Psychology at Shippensburg University, with a special interest in philosophy. The pages were originally designed for his students, and much of the content is geared towards the undergraduate level. The home page contains a link to a set of interactive quizzes on the main sections of the site. The site would be of use to students seeking to further their knowledge on the subject and/or find out information on areas beyond the more conventional philosophy of psychology and mind topics.
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Homepage of Peter Lynds
http://www.peterlynds.net.nz/
This is the home page Peter Lynds, including information about, and links to, his controversial work on the subject of time and its relation to physics, Zeno's paradoxes, and consciousness. Lynd's work is situated at an intersection between philosophy and physics. Of particular interest is his paper on time and classical quantum mechanics. The paper focuses upon the question of indeterminacy and discontinuity. The site also contains Peter's replies to comments or questions pertaining to his published work.
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Images of St Augustine
http://www46.homepage.villanova.edu/john.immerwahr/augustine.htm
'Images of St Augustine' is a website maintained by John Immerwahr, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, USA. It provides a brief narrative of the life of Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430). The materials are offered in two sections. The first presents a selection of images, which are accompanied by narration, of the frescoes painted by Benozzo Gozzoli in the Church of Saint Augustine in San Gimignano, Italy. The scenes are on the following themes: School, College, Mother of Tears; Rome; The Teacher; To Milan; Arrival in Milan; St Ambrose; Conversion; Baptism; Seashell; Death of Monica (his mother); and (St Augustine's) Funeral. The second section contains a number of images from the stained glass windows in the St Thomas of Villanova Church on the campus of Villanova University. The scenes here are on the following themes: Conversion; Baptism; Vision; Death; Writing Confessions; Pelagianism; Sea Shell (an ancient symbol of baptism); and Giving the Rule. This is an interesting and engaging resource for those seeking an introduction to the life and teachings of St Augustine.
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Institute for learning technologies: digital text projects
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html
The Digital Texts Project website of the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT), based at Columbia University, offers free full-text editions of many classic philosophical works in English. Texts available include: Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics'; Plato's 'Meno'; 'Crito'; 'Protagoras'; 'Phaedrus'; 'Gorgias'; 'Ion'; 'Symposium'; 'Phaedo'; and 'Republic'; John Dewey's 'Democracy and Education'; John Locke's 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'; and Machiavelli's 'The Prince'. There are also texts by George Berkeley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, and Virgil, amongst others. Brief biographic sketch of authors are also provided, plus links to other major sites with digital texts available. However, it should be noted that this site is still a work in progress: texts are not yet available for all the authors listed on the home page, and some of those which are available are only in plain text format (HTML versions are said to be forthcoming, but site updates do not appear to be particularly frequent). Nevertheless, there is already enough material here to make this an extremely useful resource.
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International Association of Greek Philosophy (IAGP)
http://www.iagp.gr/
The website of the International Association for Greek Philosophy (IAGP) provides information about the activities of the Association, which is a non-profit organisation devoted to promoting the study of Greek philosophy. Details of past and forthcoming conferences and publications are given, plus contact details for the Association. The site also offers a link to the International Centre for Greek Philosophy, a non-profit academic research and cultural institution which aims to promote international research into Greek philosophy, and to coordinate and develop the research carried out by specialists in Greek philosophy.
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International Plutarch society, The
http://www.usu.edu/history/ploutarchos/
This is the website of the International Plutarch Society, which aims to further Plutarchan studies and to encourage communication between scholars who are researching various aspects of Plutarch's works. The site gives a page of links to English translations of writings of the Greek biographer, historian, and moral philosopher, (found in the Internet Classics Archive) as well as a large downloadable bibliography of secondary material on Plutarch which, although comprehensive, gives only the title and author of works with no annotation detailing their content. Details of how to become a member of the International Plutarch Society are also given on the website, as well as information on upcoming conferences on Plutarch and tables of contents for the Society's paper journal, Ploutarchos.
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