Introduction to the project
The beginnings of Western philosophy: the pre-Socratics
Socrates and the Sophists
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism, and Neoplatonism
Early Christian thought through Augustine
Early medieval philosophy
The High Middle Ages (I): Thomas Aquinas
The High Middle Ages (II): Bonaventure, Scotus, Ockham
Philosophy between the medieval and modern periods
Descartes and the beginning of modern philosophy
Continental rationalism: Spinoza and Leibniz
British empiricism: Locke and Berkeley
The Scottish enlightenment (I): David Hume
The Scottish enlightenment (II): Thomas Reid
Enlightenment deism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Wollstonecraft
German idealism and Hegel
John Stuart Mill and nineteenth-century positivism
Conclusions: some lessons from the history of Western philosophy.
