Nptel iit bhu

Can you provide me the course structure of Aspects of Western Philosophy program as offered jointly by NPTEL, MHRD & IIT BHU?

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The course structure of Aspects of Western Philosophy program as offered jointly by NPTEL, MHRD & IIT BHU is as follows:

Module One
Ancient Greek Philosophy and Medieval Thought

Chapter One Greek Philosophy: An Introduction
Chapter Two Sophists and Socrates: The Philosophy of Man, Relativism and the Idea of Good
Chapter Three Plato’s Idealism
Chapter Four Plato’s Theory of Knowledge
Chapter Five Aristotle’s Criticism of Platonic Idealism and the Concepts of
Form and Matter
Chapter Six Aristotle’s Theory of Causation and the Ideas of Potentiality and
Actuality
Chapter Seven Medieval Philosophy

Module Two
Modern Philosophy: The Schools of Rationalism and Empiricism

Chapter Eight Modern Philosophy
Chapter Nine Descartes: Method of Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge
Chapter Ten Rene Descartes: The Mind-body Dualism
Chapter Eleven Spinoza
Chapter Twelve Spinoza’s Pantheism: God and Nature Relationship
Chapter Thirteen The Philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Chapter Fourteen Fundamentals of John Locke’s Empiricism
Chapter Fifteen John Locke: Theory of knowledge
Chapter Sixteen George Berkeley’s Immaterialism and Subjective Idealism
Chapter Seventeen Refutation of Abstract Ideas and Esse est Percipi
Chapter Eighteen David Hume: Theory of Knowledge
Chapter Nineteen David Hume: From Empiricism to Skepticism