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What Is the World?

What Is the World?

Code	15572
Year	3
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Entry requirements	There are none.
Learning outcomes	The question "What is the world?" does not have to demand an immediate answer; on the contrary, it invites one to assume from the outset the inquiring bid in which the question is played. In this sense, this course aims to stimulate the practice of philosophical questioning, through a fundamental theme of philosophy. At the end of the UC, the student should be able to: (i) identify issues concerning our being-in-the-world and being-in-the-world; (ii) make explicit the fundamental elements of the perspectives studied; (iii) discuss answers to the question "What is the world?"; (iv) problematize our being and being-in-the-world.
Syllabus	1. The “World”, a polysemic and analogical notion. The idea of world-universus as “ordered totality” (universitas rerum): macrocosmos, mesocosmos, and microcosmos; 2. Man as a world-former; 3. From the house to the world; 4. The various significant modes of expressing a critical relationship with the world in contemporary times, culminating in estrangement from the world.
Main Bibliography	Platão (2005), Teeteto, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [Excertos]. Thomas Rentsch, “Welt”, In: Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, HWPh, Bd. 12, Schwabe-Verlag AG, Basileia, 2005, cols. 407-443 KANT, Immanuel, Crítica da Razão Pura, trad. de Manuela Pinto dos Santos e Alexandre Fradique Morujão. Introd. e notas de Alexandre Fradique Morujão. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1994 [Excertos]. Levinas, E. (1980). “A Morada”. In Totalidade e Infinito (135-156). Lisboa: Edições 70. Aderson, Scott Edward (2022), Habitar: um ecopoema, Lisboa: Poética Edições. Peter Sloterdijk, 2008. O Estranhamento do Mundo. Trad. Ana Nolasco. Lisboa: Relógio d'Água. Lyotard, J.-F. (1977). O inumano, considerações sobre o tempo, Lisboa, Editorial Estampa.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.