History of Philosophy and Christian Thought
This course is a basic introduction to the history of philosophy and Christian thought.
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About this Class
These lectures were given at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida during the fall semester of 2001.
Lectures
Thales and Anaximander were two philosophers in the sixth century BC that lived in Miletus.
Any worldview addresses the subjects of God, ultimate reality, human knowledge, ethics and human persons.
Fundamental beliefs of a naturalistic worldview is that nothing exists outside the physical universe and that all things evolved.
Plato was a student of Socrates and lived into the fourth century BC. He opposed hedonism, empiricism, relativism, materialism, atheism and naturalism.
Plato described the universe as having three levels: the world of particulars, the world of forms, and the form of the good.
Evaluation of Plato's arguments and comparison of Plato's philosophy with biblical theology.
Empiricism teaches that all human knowledge arises from sense experience. Rationalism teaches that some human knowledge does not arise from sense. experience
Aristotle's philosophy as it relates to attributes of God and fundamental assumptions about psychology.
Hellenistic philosophy was an approach that was popular from the fourth century BC to the fifth century AD.