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5928
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| Year |
1
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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 reflect on the ancient philosophy in the light of their questions and systematizations; locate a variety of figures, schools and lines of thought in their multi-cultural contexts; emphasize the relevance and perdurability of classical philosophy at the present time
Capability to 1. make judgments based on the complexity of the philosophical transition between the mythological narrative and rational world view, as well as the displacement from worldview of sophistry to Socratic-Platonic and Aristotelian theorizing; 2. identify and research specific literature on ancient philosophical issues; 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 |
1. MYTHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND SACREDNESS OF THE WORLD
2. EPIC AND TRAGIC HEROICITY
3. TALES AND THE AWAKENING OF THE LOGOS
4. ANAXIMANDER AND THE SEARCH FOR UNLIMITED
5. HERACLITUS AND THE BECOMING WITH MEASURE
6. THE ORPHIC-PYTHAGOREAN INFLUENCE IN ELEATES
7. PARMENIDES AND UNITY OF BEING
8. THE SOPHISTS AND CULTURE OF HUMANISM
9. THE SOCRATIC ETHICS OF THE SOUL
10. PLATO’S DIALECTIC
11. PLATO’S DOCTRINE OF THE IMMORTALITY
12. ARISTOTLE’S EPISTEMOLOGY
13. ARISTOTLE’S DOCTRINE OF THE SUBSTANCE
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Main Bibliography |
ROCHA PEREIRA Maria Helena, Hélade: antologia da Cultura Grega, Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra, 1971
KIRK G.S., Filósofos Pré-Socráticos: história crítica com selecção de textos, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1994
PLATO, Complete Works, J. Cooper (ed.), Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997
ARISTOTLE, Complete Works of Aristotle, 1-2 vols., Jonathan Barnes (ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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