| Code |
14238
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| Year |
1
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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 |
Not applicable
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Mode of delivery |
Classroom teaching and tutorial follow up
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Work placements |
Specific indication not applicable, except that followed from the Form Course
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Learning outcomes |
In the end, this UC aims that students:
- Get to know the main roots, fundamentals, matrices, moments and questions that arise within the scope of a discipline that intersects matters of Ancient and Medieval Thought;
- Know and understand the main issues and challenges that arise within the scope of Ancient and Medieval Thought;
- Know how to think critically about the main problems that are fundamental in the proper axis of a reflective culture on Ancient and Medieval Thought;
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Syllabus |
1. Determining methodological topics of research in Ancient Thought: the roots of the 'Greek miracle';
2. Access to Ancient Philosophy: key thinkers;
3. The traditions of ancient knowledge: mytho-poetic and reflective; the doxography; the recovery of the Diels-Kranz textual heritage;
4. Knowledge in oral and written traditions: Aristotle and Metaphysics;
5. Science and Philosophy in the wisdom tradition: before Socrates;
6. The origins of dialectics: eleatism;
7. The Sophists;
8. Plato: the quest for knowledge – the platonic conception of knowledge;
9. Aristotle and the synthesis of ancient knowledge: the principles of being; the investigation of Nature; potency and act; the investigation of Man – the soul;
10. Introduction to Hellenistic Thought;
11. Medieval Thought: main topics and authors;
12. Augustine of Hippo: will and freedom; order and freedom; reason and faith, political and religious issues;
13. Thomas Aquinas: entity and essence;
14. What cannot be said;
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Main Bibliography |
Mandatory reading sources
HERACLITO, Fragmentos, in KIRK G., Os filósofos pré-socráticos, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1995
COTA BIBLIOTECA: CA-192-00064
PLATÃO, República, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001
COTA BIBLIOTECA: CA-1.0-PLA
S. GREGÓRIO DE NISSA, Criação do Homem, São Paulo: Paulus, 2011
TEXTO NÃO EXISTENTE NA BIBLIOTECA > SERÁ FACULTADA CÓPIA
S. TOMÁS, Suma teológica, São Paulo: Loyola, 2005
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
a) The student must take a written test in person;
b) As a group, students must write a work project and a final work to deliver to the teacher on a date to be agreed – this comment must in any case be a critical exercise on a text presented or not in class;
c) Working students who wish to submit to the respective assessment regime must take two written tests (50%/50%, dates to be agreed).
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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