Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) • PPE

This is a 56 pages of a History of Philosophy course. It is divided into 12 parts (for the 12 lectures and seminars) summarising several chapters of the book "A Brief History of Western Philosophy" from Anthony Kenny (see chapters below) as well as additional readings that were to be read along the book. (contact me if you need those as well in pdf). The philosophers and periods studied are : 1. Introduction : Heraclitus 2. Ancient Platonism : Plato (Kenny III) 3. Ancient West : Aristotle (Ken...

This is a 51 pages complete summary of the book "Policy Analysis" from D. Weimer and R. Vining. The 2 last chapters are merely superficially covered since usually not relevant for the exam. The content is ordered in chapters, paragraphs and bullet points, and also summarized in tables, handmade or coming from the book itself and the general lay-out follows the one of the book (same titles, headlines, etc.). Important terms are written in bold or underlined. This summary is sufficient to repla...

This document contains the extensive answers (discussed in class) of the reading questions of the book "An Introduction to Moral Philosophy" from Jonathan Wolff, as well as a summary of the chapters, starting from the fourth one (the previous ones being quite short). It also provides a summary of additional readings from the philosophers mentionned in the book (Enoch, Aristotle, Singer, Nozick, etc.). Philosophers' names and works are highlighted in a soft yellow and important sentences, in a...

This is a summary of the book "Introduction to Political Science - How to think for yourself about Politics" from Craig Parsons. The summary is 111 full pages of text and provides pictures, tables and graphs coming from the book. The content is structured in chapters, paragraphs, and bullet points to make reading and memorising easier. Definitions are written in green and the rest of the text is black. Only chapter 2 is missing, otherwise all chapters are summarised, ranging from 3 to 17 pages. ...

A quick and short, but very concise and accurate notes/summary on the major differences between Kantian and Utilitarian Ethics.

This is an in-depth notes/summary of the Introduction to Ethics course of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Here you can find an introduction to the different fields of ethics, and various detailed explanations of the most common and important ethical principles. As well, these notes cover some of the main ideas of Aristotle, Kant, Rawls, Nietzsche, Hobbes, Mill and Bentham. Finally, these notes also include some theories where ethics are applied to certain situations.