Philisophy

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Course ID:	2600-MSMz2FIL
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0223) Philosophy and ethics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Philisophy
Name in Polish:	Filozofia
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Management
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty obowiązkowe dla 2 roku, MSM zaoczne sem. letni
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Short description:	The course is aiming at a general introduction into philosophy. Questions are introduced in the historical order. The special emphasis is put on dialogical nature of philosophy, which means that the history of philosophy presents as the history of great questions and answers given to them. Students are instructed about selected basic philosophical theories together with specific terminology.
Full description:	Following topics will be presentet during course. 1. Introduction: birth and nature of philosophy. 2. Beginnings of philosophy in ancient Greece. 3. Arguing: Socrates against sophists. 4. Plato: philosophy as a way of love. 5. Aristotle: first philosophical system. 6. Philosophy in searching for happines: great hellenistic schools. 6.1. Skeptics. 6.2. Epicureans. 6.3. Stoics. 7. Between faith and reason: selected questions of medieval philosophy. 8. In searching for certainty or the birth of modern philosophy. Rene Descertes. 9. British empiricism. 10. Nor experience, nor reason; then what? Kantian solution. 11. Philosophy of faith: from Pascal to Kierkegaard. 12. Reevaluation of all values by Friedrich Nietzsche and its consequences.
Bibliography:	1. Obligatory readings. • Plato. Gorgias. • Nietzsche, Friedrich. From genealogy of morality. 2. Recomended/additional readings. • Copleston, Frederic. History of Philosophy. V. I-IX. • Höffe, Otfried. Small History of Philosophy.
Learning outcomes:	Completing the course student will: • distinguish philosophy from non-philosophical subjects, • recognize specific philosophical positions and its representing thinkers, • give specific philosophical questions and exemplary answers to these questions, • distinguish philosophical thesis from supporting arguments, • analyze chosen philosophical statements in regard of their philosophical thesis, • juxtapose chosen opposed philosophical positions (for example: rationalism against empiricism).
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Final written exam.

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