Code |
5938
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Year |
2
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Semester |
S2
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ECTS Credits |
6
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Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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Scientific area |
Philosophy
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Entry requirements |
There are no specific prerequisites for this Course Unit, except those enlvolved in the admission requirements set out in study cycle.
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Mode of delivery |
Classroom teaching and tutorial follow up.
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Work placements |
There are no specific indications for this Course Unit, except those arising from the information available in the cycle of studies.
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Learning outcomes |
The aim is to locate Augustine in the mediation between antiquity and the Middle Ages; identify the key issues of the philosophy of Augustine and his intellectual evolution; explaining the augustinian marks in Western thought and culture.
Capability to 1. make judgments based on the complexity of the philosophical transition between Neoplatonism and Christianity; 2. identify and research specific literature on themes of Augustinian thought; 3. write a fortnightly two-page report on each of the required reading texts in the context of tutorial follow up; 4. expose results of an investigation built around a topic of the program with methodological academic rigor.
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Syllabus |
1. Between temptation and the refutation of Manichaeism 2. The ontological dualism 3. Accession and refutation of academic skepticism 4. Knowledge of the absolute and the absolute of knowledge 5. Faith and reason: crede ut intelligas et intellige uy credas 6. Phenomenology of christian existence 7. From memoria Dei to the memory sui 8. The centrality of Confessions X
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Main Bibliography |
AUGUSTINUS, De Natura boni, Porto: Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, 1992 AUGUSTINUS,Contra Academicos, Madrid: BAC, 1947 AUGUSTINUS,De utilitate credendi, Madrid, BAC, 1956 AUGUSTINUS,Confessiones, Lisboa: IN-CM, 2000 PEGUEROLES Juan, El pensamiento filosófico de san Agustín, Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1972
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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