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5950
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S1
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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 ontology in the sphere of their problems and fundamental categories; approach to ontology thru the concepts of Truth, Substance, Identity, Unity, Infinity, Transcendence, Otherness, Value and Action; accentuate the ontological root of Western rationality.
Capability to 1. make judgments based on the historical and cultural processes that determine the philosophical emergence of ontology; 2. identify and research specific literature on issues inherent or related to the ontological reflection; 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 |
I. The Truth in the "Poem" of Parmenides
II. The Substance in Aristotle's "Metaphysics"
III. The Existence of God in the "Proslogion" of St. Anselm
IV. The thinking on the subject in the "Meditations" of R. Descartes
V. The Being-there in the "Being and Time" of M. Heidegger
VI. The Narrative in the "From text to action" of P. Ricoeur
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Main Bibliography |
ARISTÓTELES, Metafísica, Madrid: Gredos, 1994
PARMÉNIDES, «Poema», in Filósofos Pré-Socráticos, KIRK-RAVEN (org.), Lisboa: FCG, 1994
ANSELMO (Santo), Proslogion, Lisboa: Texto, 2000
DESCARTES René, Meditações sobre a filosofia primeira, Coimbra: Almedina, 1992
HEIDEGGER Martin, Ser e Tempo, Petrópolos: Vozes, 2002
RICOEUR Paul, Do texto à acção, Porto: Res, 1986
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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