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3. Features of the philosophy of ancient Greece: cosmocentrism. Basic periods.
4. Classical period of the development of ancient philosophy
4.1. Socrates Philosophy;
4.2. Plato's Theory of Ideas;
4.3. The doctrine of the existence of Aristotle.
5. Ancient Rome: Basic Philosophical Ideas

Features of the eastern and western types of worldview and philosophizing:
orientation to the past and future, rational and irrational nature. Parable as a way of
learning.
Ethical issues as the main paradigm of the philosophy of Ancient India.
Orthodox and unorthodox philosophical schools. The four truths of the philosophy of

Buddhism. Socio-political issues as the main paradigm of the philosophy of Ancient
China. The principle of the golden mean and the features of a noble person in the
philosophy of Confucianism.
Cosmocentrism as the main paradigm of ancient philosophy. Periodization and
basic features of philosophy. Philosophical ideas of Thales, Heraclitus, Democritus
and Pythagoras.

Feature of the classical period of Greek philosophy. The Dialogical Method of
Socrates. The theory of Plato's ideas. The doctrine of the existence of Aristotle.
Philosophical ideas of stoicism, epicureanism. Titus Lucretius Car, Seneca.

Lecture 3. WESTERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY OF MIDDLE AGE
AND RENAISSANCE

Lecture plan

1. The religious nature of the medieval outlook and philosophy. Theocentrism
2. Philosophical ideas of patristics and scholasticism. Nominalism and Realism.

3. Anthropocentrism of the Renaissance.
4. Development of natural philosophical teachings: heliocentrism, pantheism.

Theocentrism as the main paradigm of medieval philosophy. Features of
medieval philosophy. Influence of the philosophical ideas of the Bible on the

philosophy of the Middle Ages. Creationism.
Western and Eastern patristics. Basic postulates of patristics. Aurelius Augustine
on the knowledge of God. Scholastic and its major periods. The problem of harmony
of faith and reason. Tom Aquinas, Five Evidence of God's Being.
Anthropocentrism is the main paradigm of the Renaissance philosophy.
Pantheism and humanism. Specificity of the Renaissance Philosophy. Natural
philosophy «Titans» of the Renaissance.

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