History of Philosophy I

obligatory courses

This course will present main tenets of European philosophical thought from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 14th century C.E. Presentation of ancient philosophy will include: Pre-Socratics, Sophists, Socrates and his followers, Plato and Aristotle, Hellenistic schools, Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Patristic philosophy. Mediaeval philosophy will include: Early Mediaeval Neoplatonism, 11th century early Scholasticism, 11th/12th century universals dispute, 12th century Chartres Renaissance, , 12th century Mysticism, 13th century doctrinal movements, 14th century movements, Mysticism (Johannes Eckhart).

This course will present main tenets of European philosophical thought from the 7th century B.C.E. to the 14th century C.E. Presentation of ancient philosophy will include following topics, figures and schools: the Pre-Socratics (Ionians, Pythagoreans, Eleatics), the humanists (Sophists as well as Socrates and his followers), systemic approaches (Plato and Aristotle), Hellenistic schools (Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics), syncretic approaches (Middle Platonism, Philo of Alexandria and Neoplatonism), Patristic philosophy (Gnosis, Greek and Latin Apologetics and Systematics – Origen, Augustine of Hippo). Discussion of medieval philosophy will include: Early Mediaeval Neoplatonism (Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Johannes Scotus Erigena), 11th century early Scholasticism (the dialectic/antidialectic dispute, Anselm of Canterbury), 11th/12th century universals debate (realism, nominalism, conceptualism - Abelard), 12th century Chartres Renaissance, 12th century Mysticism (Bernard of Clairvaux, the Victorian School), early Scholasticism (introduction of Aristotelian learning to universities), 13th century doctrinal movements (Latin Averroism, Aristotelianism of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas and Augustinianism - Bonaventura), 14th century movements (Thomism, Duns Scotus and Scotism, William of Ockham and via moderna), Mysticism (Johannes Eckhart). The aim of these lectures are to present the most important problems of ancient and mediaeval philosophy, reveal the main ideas, their evolution and continuation in the following centuries.

knowledge

- basic knowledge of philosophical terms

- acquiring comprehension of the history of forming of philosophical ideas

- acquiring a general comprehension of ancient and medieval philosophy (key figures, ideas and arguments) based on the reading of the source texts

abilities

- the ability of close reading and analyzing ancient and medieval source philosophy texts

- discerning basic philosophical problems, theses and assumptions of ancient and medieval philosophy

- following and articulating arguments used by ancient and medieval philosophers

- students are aware of the impact of the european philosophical heritage and of the philosophical thinking on the social bonds forming

- tutorial: final oram examination

- final oral exam at the end of the academic year