Classical and Modern Western Philosophy: Metaphysics (GATE XH) — Stud…
Metaphysics: Pre-Socratic Philosophy of Thales, Anaxagoras, Anaximenies, Ionians, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Democritus. Plato and Aristotle: The question of Being (Ousia), Being as Idea in Plato's Phaedo, Republic and the Sophist, Being as the synthesis of Matter [hyle] and Form [morphe] in Aristotle's Metaphysics and Physics. Problem of evil and existence of God in St. Augustine, St. Anselm, and St. Thomas Aquinas.