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Syllabus |
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Egyptian texts and the Near Eastern wisdom tradition: parallels and influences on Greek literature and philosophy. The transmission of narrative themes and motifs between the East and Greece: the search for immortality, heroic friendship and human destiny;
2. The mytho-poetic roots of ancient thought; orality, epic poetry and the preservation of knowledge. Tragedy, comedy and the philosophical construction of human experience: the role of irony and social criticism; the relationship between theater and philosophical thought; methodological topics that determine research into Ancient Thought; the problem of doxography; the recovery of Diels-Kranz's textual heritage;
3. Socrates and the sophist movement; rhetoric, epistemological relativism and ethics: the question of truth;
4. The birth of Philosophy: being, truth and knowledge;
5. Plato: the search and construction of knowledge – the Platonic conception of knowledge; metaphysics, ethics and politics.
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Main Bibliography |
- Épico de Gilgameš (Lisboa, 2017);
- Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms (Berkley, 1973);
- Kirk & Raven, Os Filósofos Pré-socráticos (Lisboa, 1972);
- Sofistas, Testemunhos e Fragmentos (Lisboa, 2005);
- Fédon (Coimbra, 1988);
- República (V-VII, X) (Lisboa, 2000);
- Banquete, (Lisboa, 1991);
- Fedro (Lisboa, 1997);
- Leis (V-VIII) (Lisboa, 2019)
- Metafísica (VII, XII) (Madrid, 1970);
- Política (I,II, III, VII) (Lisboa, 1998);
- Categorias, (Porto, 1995);
- Da Alma (II) (Lisboa, 2005);
- The Hellenistic philosophers, vol I, (Cambridge, 1987);
- Enneads (London, 1966–1988);
- Confissões (Lisboa, 2001).
- A Cidade de Deus, Vol. I (Lisboa, 1996).
- Pseudo-Dionísio, Teologia Mística (Porto, 1996).
- S. Boaventura, Recondução das Ciências à Teologia (Porto, 1996);
- Tomás de Aquino, O Ente e a Essência (Porto, 1995);
- João Duns Escoto, Tratado do Primeiro Princípio (Lisboa, 1998);
- Ockham, Philosophical Writings: A Selection (Indianapolis, 1990);
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
The course privileges an expository component of the elements of the subject proposed in this program, and also a critical aspect, where the student is encouraged to actively participate in the class on the topics in question.
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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