(in Polish) Social Philosophy 3800-ISP-SP
The tutorial aims to introduce the problems discussed in social philosophy on the grounds of classical texts from this field of philosophy. The most important for the classes will be the understanding of how such concepts as community, society, state, and commonwealth are perceived from the perspective of social philosophers. Moreover, it will be analysed which concepts and categories are inspiring for social philosophy nowadays. After the introduction to a theory, there will be part of the classes focused on details or extensions of analysed problems. This part of the classes will have a form of a conversatory lecture.
Type of course
Course coordinators
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge: The student knows the key problems of social philosophy from antiquity to modern times.
Skills: Students can relate the acquired knowledge to contemporary issues undertaken within the social philosophy, but also more broadly, in the public debate. The student understands the continuity of certain philosophical concepts and can formulate the problems associated with them.
Social competence: Students can see problems in social life and refer them to philosophical concepts.
Assessment criteria
Written exam in the form of open questions
Acceptable number of missed classes without formal explanation: 2
Bibliography
Tutorial:
- Plato, The Republic, Book IV, VI.
- Aristotle, Politics, Book I,
- St. Thomas, De Regno, Book I.
- T. More, Utopia (fragments)
- Machiavelli, De Prince (fragments).
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. XIII-XIV.
- J.J. Rousseau, The Social Contract (fragments)
- I. Kant, Perpetual Peace
- J. G. Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation (fragments)
- G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Independence and dependence of self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage;
- K. Marx, Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (fragments);
- E. Cassirer Myth of the State (Part I What is Myth? and the chapter XVIII. The Technique of the Modem Political Myths)
- M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: Panopticism.
Conversatory lecture:
-J.P. Vernant, The Origins of Greek Thought (fragments)
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII and S. Schwarzenbach, “Fraternity, solidarity, and civic friendship”, Amity 2015.
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, The Introduction, Ch. I-IV, and P. Pettit, Made with words (fragments)
- M. Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, ch. V.
- G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right: Civil Society, A, B, C.
- K. Marx, The German Ideology (fragments)
- C. Schmitt, Political Theology, ch. I-IV.
- Arendt, The Human Condition (fragments)
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