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Learning outcomes |
This UC aims, in general terms: 1. to stimulate the taste for new themes, new authors, and new learning; to foster the ability to analyze and synthesize, critical thinking, autonomous thinking, and originality in approaches to emerging problems in Culture. In specific terms, it intends: 1. to determine the notions of «Philosophy» and «Culture» and some models of the relationship between them (critical, dialectic, mimetic, ancillary, justification, fragmentary, dispute, and others); 2. to recognize and justify the ambiguity and impossibility of a univocal concept of Culture; to problematize the relationship between Knowledge and Power from the processes of Antigone and Socrates, the Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, and the Nazi concentration camps; 4. at the end, the student must write a study summary of a research project.
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Syllabus |
Introduction. Presentation: teacher, students, program, methodologies, assessment, and work materials. What is Culture? What is Philosophy? Some models of the relationship between Philosophy and Culture.
1. Philosophy, Culture, and Polis (5th-4th centuries BC). Individual conscience (Antigone) versus civil and political law (Creon) in Sophocles' tragedy Antigone and Apology of Socrates.
2. Culture and the 'krisis' of its moral foundation. Study of Nietzsche's texts: frg. 125 of The Gay Science; Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense; and the 2nd Untimely Meditation.
3. The forbidden door of Bluebeard's Castle (20th-21st centuries). Goethe's Garden and the University of Erfurt, next door to the horror of the Buchenwald concentration camp. What cultural meaning does such proximity have? “Culture is a very ambiguous talent.”
Conclusion. Apocalyptic vanishing line: what kind of “Culture” will (still?) be possible in the triumphant reign of Artificial Intelligence?
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Main Bibliography |
ANTUNES Manuel, “Cultura”, in Obra Completa, ..., FCG, Lisboa, 2005, pp. 86-90;
HUNTINGTON Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations..., London, 2002.
JASPERS Karl, Iniciação Filosófica, Guimarães Editores, Lisboa, 1987.
LIMA VAZ Henrique C. de, “Filosofia e Cultura na tradição ocidental”, In: Síntese Nova Fase, ..., pp. 533-578
NIETZSCHE Friedrich, A Gaia Ciência; Acerca da Verdade e da Mentira em sentido Extramoral, In: Obras Escolhidas, ..., Lisboa, 1996.
NIETZSCHE Friedrich, Considerações Intempestivas (2.ª Consideração Intempestiva) ..., Lisboa, 1976, pp.101-205.
PLATÃO, Apologia de Sócrates (trad. port. J. T. Santos), IN-CM, Lisboa, 1993.
ROSA, José M.S., "Da Fragilidade da(s) Humanidade(s)...” – Theya Editores, Covilhã–Lisboa, 2023, pp. 139-164.
SÓFOCLES, Antígona, FCG, Lisboa, 2008.
STEINER Georges, No Castelo do Barba Azul. Algumas Notas para a redefinição da Cultura, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 1992.
VIALATOUX Joseph, A Intenção Filosófica, Almedina, Coimbra, 1982
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