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Develop your student’s worldview by wrestling with consequential ideas of history in this challenging introductory survey using video lectures and primary sources.

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Introduction

First Steps 6 Steps Sample Lesson

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How This Class Works

Brief Bios of RC Sproul & John Frame

Books for This Class

Your Philosophy Journal

Letter from R.C. Sproul

Read: Frame on Philosophy and the Bible (43 pp.)

Greek Philosophy

1. Pre-Socratic Philosophers 7 Steps | 1 Quiz Sample Lesson

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Watch: “Thales” (23 min)

Watch: “Monism and Pluralism” (23 min)

Watch: “Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Zeno” (25 min)

Read: Pre-Socratic Philosophers (23 pp.)

Read: Frame on Pre-Socratic Philosophers (14 pp.)

Write: Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Review: Pre-Socratic Philosophers

Quiz: Pre-Socratics

2. Socrates 6 Steps | 1 Quiz Sample Lesson

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Watch: “Socrates” (25 min)

Read: Socrates (21 pp.)

Read: Frame on Socrates (4 pp.)

Write: Socrates’ Dialectical Method

Review: Socrates

Go Deeper: Read ‘Socrates’ from “Great Philosophers” (23 pp.)

3. Plato 7 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Plato – Part 1” (23 min)

Watch: “Plato – Part 2” (24 min)

Read: Plato (73 pp.)

Read: Frame on Plato (8 pp.)

Write: Exploring Plato’s Cave

Go Deeper: Read ‘Plato’ from “Great Philosophers” (26 pp.)

4. Aristotle 7 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Aristotle – Part 1” (23 min)

Watch: “Aristotle – Part 2” (23 min)

Read: Aristotle (16 pp.)

Read: Frame on Aristotle (8 pp.)

Write: Analyze Aristotle’s Ideas

Review: Aristotle

Go Deeper: Read ‘Aristotle’ from “Great Philosophers” (29 pp.)

Quiz: Aristotle

Medieval Christian Philosophy

5. Plotinus & Augustine 7 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Plotinus and Neo-Platonism” (23 min)

Watch: “Augustine” (24 min)

Read: Augustine (30 pp.)

Read: Frame on Plotinus & Augustine (37 pp.)

Write: A Personal Response to Augustine

Review: Plotinus & Augustine

Go Deeper: Read ‘Augustine’ from “Great Philosophers” (10 pp.)

Quiz: Plotinus & Augustine

6. Anselm & Aquinas 9 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Anselm” (23 min)

Read: Anselm (10 pp.)

Watch: “Aquinas – Part 1” (24 min)

Watch: “Aquinas – Part 2” (23 min)

Read: Aquinas (19 pp.)

Read: Frame on Anselm & Aquinas (38 pp.)

Write: Agree or Disagree with Anselm or Aquinas

Review: Anselm & Aquinas

Go Deeper: Read ‘Aquinas’ from “Great Philosophers” (12 pp.)

Quiz: Anselm & Aquinas

Early Modern Philosophy

7. Renaissance & Descartes 8 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “The Renaissance Revolution” (24 min)

Watch: “Descartes” (23 min)

Watch: “Descartes and ‘Cause and Effect'” (24 min)

Read: Descartes (15 pp.)

Read: Frame on Renaissance & Descartes (18 pp.)

Write: A Meditation on a Dedication

Review: Renaissance & Descartes

Go Deeper: Read ‘Descartes’ from “Great Philosophers” (7 pp.)

Quiz: Renaissance & Descartes

8. Leibniz & Pascal 9 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Leibniz” (23 min)

Read: Leibniz (13 pp.)

Read: Frame on Leibniz (5 pp.)

Watch: “Pascal” (23 min)

Read: Pascal (44 pp.)

Read: Frame on Pascal (9 pp.)

Write: Justifying God and Man’s Belief

Review: Leibniz & Pascal Summary / Vocabulary

Go Deeper: Read ‘Leibniz’ in “Great Philosophers” (9 pp)

Quiz: Leibniz & Pascal

9. Locke 8 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Locke” (23 min)

Read: Locke (18 pp)

Watch: “Crisis in the 18th Century – Part 1” (24 min)

Watch: “Crisis in the 18th Century – Part 2” (20 min)

Read: Frame on Early Modern Thought (6 pp)

Write: Locke’s Ideas about the Way We Know Things

Go Deeper: Read ‘Locke’ in “Great Philosophers”

10. Berkeley & Hume 10 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Berkeley and Empiricism” (23 min)

Read: Berkeley (7 pp.)

Read: Frame on Berkeley (4 pp.)

Watch: “Hume – Part 1” (24 min)

Watch: “Hume – Part 2” (25 min)

Read: Hume (5 pp.)

Read: Frame on Hume (9 pp.)

Write: Skeptical of Hume’s Skepticism

Review: Berkeley and Hume

Go Deeper: Read ‘Berkeley’ and ‘Hume’ in “Great Philosophers”

Quiz: Berkeley & Hume

Modern Philosophy

11. Kant 7 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Kant – Part 1” (24 min)

Watch: “Kant – Part 2” (24 min)

Read: Frame on Kant (18 pp.)

Read: Kant (13 pp)

Write: A Critique of Pure Division

Go Deeper: Read ‘Kant’ in “Great Philosophers”

12. The Enlightenment 6 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “The Enlightenment – Part 1” (24 min)

Read: Montesquieu (40 pp.)

Watch: “The Enlightenment – Part 2” (25 min)

Read selections from Edward’s “Doctrine of Original Sin Defended”

Read: Frame on The Enlightenment (8 pp.)

Review The Enlightenment: Summary / Vocabulary

Quiz: The Enlightenment

13. Hegel & Marx 10 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Hegel” (24 min)

Read: Frame on Hegel (7 pp)

Read: Hegel (7 pp)

Watch: “Marx” (23 min)

Read: Frame on Marx (5 pp)

Read: Marx (15 pp)

Write: Two Great Counterfeiters

Review: Hegel & Marx

Watch: “The Origins of Cultural Marxism” (23 min)

Read: “Cultural Marxism and Critical Theory: An Introductory Sketch”

Quiz: Hegel & Marx

14. Nietzsche & Kierkegaard 8 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Nietzsche” (23 min)

Read: Nietzsche

Read: Frame on Nietzsche

Watch: “Kierkegaard” (25 min)

Read: Kierkegaard

Read: Frame on Kierkegaard

Write: Two Ways of Thinking about Jesus Christ

Review: Nietzsche & Kierkegaard

Quiz: Nietzche & Kierkegaard

15. Sartre & Heidegger 6 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Sartre and Heidegger” (23 min)

Read: Heidegger

Read: Frame on Heidegger & Sartre

Write: The Consequences of Atheism

Review: Sartre & Heidegger

Quiz: Sartre & Heidegger

16. Russell & Modern Philosophers 8 Steps | 1 Quiz

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Watch: “Russell” (24 min)

Read: Frame on Russell

Watch: “Modern Philosophers” (23 min)

Read: Frame on Recent Christian Philosophy

Write: A Personal Philosophy

Review: Russell & Modern Philosophers

Go Deeper: Read “Why I Believe in God” by Cornelius Van Til

Quiz: Russell & Modern Philosophers

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