Philosophy

EVERMODE INSTITUTE PART I

Why Are We Here?

Why are we here on earth? As Catholics, we might take for granted that we are here for a reason. But if we are to take a serious look at the fullness of our Faith, then it is well worth our while to first consider the fundamentals of life itself—the philosophy, theology, and eschatology of what it means to be human!

Weekly Reading - Aristotle For Everybody, Mortimer Ader - Ch. 1

Moral Philosophy

• Aesop, Fables

• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

• Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden, 1 of 5)

• Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden, 2 of 5)

• Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden, 3 of 5)

• Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden, 4 of 5)

• Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden, 5 of 5)

• Seneca, Moral Writings

• Theophrastus, Characters

• Xenophon, Oeconomicus

Natural Philosophy

• Aristotle, Physics

• St. Albert the Great, Of Physics (private)

• Aristotle, Metaphysics

• Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles (text)

• Aristotle, On the Heavens

• Pliny, Natural History

• Hippocrates

  • Volume 1

  • Volume 2

• Galen, On the Natural Faculties

Plato

• Plato, Alcibiades I

• Plato, Banquet

• Plato, Critias

• Plato, Epinomis

• Plato, Greater Hippias

• Plato, Laws

• Plato, Parmenides

• Plato, Phaedrus

• Plato, Politicus

• Plato, Republic

• Plato, Sophista

• Plato, Theaetetus

• Plato, Timaeus