Internet resources

This Page is  a guide for online resources for students of Philosophy 100 with J.A. Stroble.  The page is roughly in the order the course will proceed, with links to electronic texts and some other useful sites.  Go to the bottom of the page for general on-line resources in Philosophy.

Syllabus OR Syllabus (pdf) OR Syllabus (Open Document Format)

Guide for submitting assignments by e-mail.

Stephanus, who gave us pages.

Background in Ancient Greek Religion: Hesiod's Theogony

Scene from the Phaedo.   Can you find Socrates, Phaedo, Crito , Apollodorus, and the hidden bunny?
 
 

Plato: Most of Plato that is available on-line is Jowett translations, which were the standard for quite a while. Unfortunately his style is a bit dated and more difficult to read than the Tredennick.

Socrates Plato

Our texts are available  at MIT:

Euthyphro

An audio version of the Euthyphro (in English) is available from Librivox

Apology

Translated by Benjamin Jowett

Wikipedia seems to have started a "Wikisource" project for original texts, which includes The Apologia Socratous, in the original Greek, or maybe French or Itallian, but no English yet.

If interested, here is the play The Clouds, by Aristophanes, that Socrates refers to  in the Apology.   Nothing like a good comedy on philosophy.

If you want to see where Socrates lived and where these dialogues took place, take a look at The Ancient City of Athens

Or compare the other  Apology by Xenophon

And the rest of our texts:

Crito

For comparison you might take a look at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail or Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

The Phaedo at MIT seems to be incomplete so
here is a plain text version, and there is always Phaedo on Perseus. Or the University of Virginia has all the dialogues we are reading from Jowett's The Dialogues of Plato. Click on the book to the left!

A Map of the Greek Underworld

The Analects of Confucius

Charles Muller's translation.

Stephen R. McIntyre's translation.

Confucius Publishing Company, LTD., is interesting, but might be a bit slow.

Clicking on the Wheel of Fortune will take you to  to the web page of James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania, who has edited the Latin text of Boethius' Consolatio.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/boethius/boephil.html

Boethius is a literary, with lots of those classical references. Here is some help with some of them.
The Muses    according to the wisdom of Wikipedia (lots of tangential info).  

And a  website about the Liberal Arts.

A Dictionary of Classical Mythologic references is nice to have.  Not all that exhaustive.  Maybe the Oxford Classical Dictionary in the library?
 

Hegel: [Hmmm] This text varies quite a bit from the Lauer translation. It is taken from a different edition of Hegel's lectures. But if nothing else if available...
 

G. W. F. Hegel Lectures on the History of Philosophy (Selections)

Translated by E. S. Haldane (1892-96)

http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/mickelsen/ToC/Hegel-Hist%20of%20Phil.htm
 
 

Internet guides to Philosophy

Hippias and Noesis philosophy search engines!
 

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

And The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Philosophy entry in Wikipedia (anybody can edit this! Be careful!

A couple of guides on writing philosophy, citation, and style:

Jim Pyror's Guidelines

WRITING A PHILOSOPHY PAPER, by Peter Horban

Leeward Community College Library's Citation Guide (Warning: PDF!)

Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University, lists Common Errors in English.

Strunk's Elements of Style.