by WashingtonIrving on Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:01 pm
From what I remember of this course, the best possible thing you can do is make sure you understand the Republic. It makes a lot of sense of everything else. The hellenistic philosophers section is quite short so thats quite simple as there isn't as much depth. And Aristotle is evil, and impossible to read without falling asleep. And I'm in 4th year with a pretty high tolerance for 'difficult' philosophy.
It took me until honours to realise that you get so much more out of lectures if, instead of skimming the reading beforehand, you try to understand it properly i.e take notes etc. Then you can understand the lecture, rather than frantically writing everything down. And Amber Carpenter is incredibly fast, the key is to realise that she repeats everything 3 times in 3 different ways! Didn't you get Sarah Broadie too though? She's awesome, I just had Amber.
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"I said farewell honey, I'll see you Judgment Day"
"I said farewell honey, I'll see you Judgment Day"