| Author | Work |
|---|---|
| Parmenides |
On Nature |
| Plato |
Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium |
| Aristotle |
Categories 1-5, 10-14, Physics I-II, On the Soul I, II.1-7, 12, III.1-8, Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics I, VII, IX, XII |
| Augustine |
Confessions |
| Aquinas |
Summa Theologiae I.1-13, 75-89, I-II.90-97, De ente et essentia |
| Descartes |
Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method |
| Leibniz |
Discourse on Metaphysics |
| Locke |
An Essay concerning Human Understanding Intro.; Bk. 1, ch. 1; Bk. 2, ch. 1-13, 19-27, 31-33, Bk. 3, ch. 1-3; Bk. 4, ch. 1-4, 9-11, 18-19 |
| Hume |
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
| Rousseau |
First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts |
| Kant |
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals |
| Hegel |
Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit |
| Kierkegaard |
Fear and Trembling |
| Mill |
Utilitarianism |
| Nietzsche |
Genealogy of Morals |
| Bergson |
An Introduction to Metaphysics |
| Wittgenstein |
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| Heidegger |
"What is Metaphysics?", "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking" |
Chair and Associate Professor of English Debra Romanick Baldwin, Ph.D., and Professor of Physics and recent Interim Dean of Constantin College Sally Hicks, Ph.D., have secured a $299,078 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support writing instruction at UD for the fall 2020 semester.
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