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Fundamental Issues in European Philosophy

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Course ID: 3106-PZFE-W
Erasmus code / ISCED: 03.2 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. / (0215) Music and performing arts The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Fundamental Issues in European Philosophy
Name in Polish: Podstawowe zagadnienia filozofii europejskiej
Organizational unit: Institute of Musicology
Course groups: (in Polish) Przedmioty obowiązkowe dla I r. studiów stacjonarnych I stopnia
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 2.50 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.

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Language: Polish
Type of course:

obligatory courses

Prerequisites (description):

Letcure will prepare students to understand philosophical background of humanities.

Mode:

Classroom

Short description:

The lecture presents the history of European Philosophy in its historical and problematic development. The main questions, problems, most known figures and philosophical schools will be presented in clear and concise way. The lecture ends with pass with grade.

Full description:

The lecture presents the history of European Philosophy in its historical and problematic development. The main questions, problems, most known figures and philosophical schools will be presented in clear and concise way. The lecture ends with pass with grade.

Topics:

1. The Problem of Knowledge and Wisdom: Sophists, Socrates and his method

2. Paideia: the probem of upbringing and ethical life (bios theoretikos): Pythagoreans, Plato

3. Wisdom and Philosophy, politics and aesthetics: Plato

4. Science and Philosophy: Aristotel

5. The Problem of a Good Life and Happyness (Fronesis): Stoics, Sceptics, Epicurean

6. Christian Philosophy, the relation between reason and faith: Augustin Aurelius & Thomas Aquinas

7. The Problem of Individuum and Free Will - rationalism: Descartes, Leibniz, Pascal & Schopenhauer

8. The Human Mind – empiricism: Locke, Berkeley, Hume

9. Paradoxes of Social and Political Life: Hobbs, Wolter, Rousseau

10. Epistemology and Judgment: Kant

11. Absurd and Faith, Individualism and Irrationalism: Pascal, Kierkegaard

12. Phenomenological Experience: Husserl, Ingarden, Merleau-Ponty

13. Existentz and Authentic Life: Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoire

14. Dialectics, Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Adorno, Marcuse, Derrida, Foucault

Bibliography:

Complementary readings:

G. Reale, "Historia filozofii starożytnej", KUL, Lublin 2000, t.1-5

A. Miś, "Główne nurty filozofii współczesnej", Warszawa 1992

A. Miś, Historia filozofii. Wybór tekstów", Warszawa 2000

A. Azen"bacher, "Wprowadzenie do filozofii", przeł. J. Zychowicz, Kraków 1992

Learning outcomes:

student knows main thinkers in European philosophy aross ages

student knows main currents in the European philosophy

student knows elements of ontological, ethical and epistemological problems in European philosophy

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Passing with grade (satifsactory - 3,0) requires good attendence. The higher grade requires writting an essay on of the lecture's topics.

Practical placement:

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Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours, 50 places more information
Coordinators: Anna Dziedzic, Anastasiya Niakrasava
Group instructors: Anna Dziedzic
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