What is philosophy? Uses and functions of philosophy, Relations of philosophy to Science, Religion and Literature; Metaphysics, Epistemology, The concept of soul, Mind-Body relationship, The Idea of Substance, Idealism, Materialism, Rationalism, Empiricism, Dialectical Idealism, Dialectical Materialism, Existentialism
Philosophers to be read: (selections) Plato (424-348 BC) Aristotle (384-322 BC) Rene Descartes (1596-1650) Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) John Locke (1632-1704) George Berkeley (1685-1753) David Hume (1711-1776) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Karl Marx (1818-1883) Jean Pau Sartre (1905-1980)