A marble statue of Socrates at the Academy of Athens in Greece. In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates asks whether the gods love the pious because it is the pious, or whether the pious is pious only because it is loved by the gods. (Image courtesy of Carlos Blanco on Flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Miriam Schoenfield
MIT Course Number
24.00
As Taught In
Fall 2019
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the problems of philosophy—in particular, to problems in ethics, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of logic, language, and science. It takes a systematic rather than historical approach. Readings come from classical and contemporary sources, but emphasis is on examination and evaluation of proposed solutions to the problems.
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