Introduction to Philosophy

Learn all about the beginning of Western philosophy with the 'Presocratics', Socrates and Plato.

A concise introduction to the comprehensive and ever-lasting philosophy of the second Ancient Greek giant, Aristotle.

An overview of the main influential schools of thought between Aristotle and the rise of Christian and Medieval philosophy.

An overview of the school of Neoplatonism and the most renowned of the 'Church Fathers', Saint Augustine of Hippo.

An introduction into the main philosophical elements of Saint Thomas Aquinas's thought.

An introduction to the 'father of Modernity', René Descartes.

An extension of the Modern school of rationalism, focusing on perhaps the greatest-ever rationalist, Spinoza.

A summary of the movement of empiricism and the main works, ideas and insights of its most influential and important proponent, David Hume.

An overview of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and the grand movement he set up, German idealism.

An overview of the existentialist movement and one of its main philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche.

An introduction into one of the main and influential disciplines of the 20th century, phenomenology, plus notes on its founder Husserl, as well as the wider context of 'continental philosophy'.

An overview of some of the main themes and figures in a very dominant 20th- and 21st-century type of philosophy, Analytic Philosophy.

Some observations and notes on the status of philosophy today, and where it might and should be going.