Philisophy 2600-MSMz2FIL
Following topics will be presentet during course.
1. Introduction: birth and nature of philosophy.
2. Beginnings of philosophy in ancient Greece.
3. Arguing: Socrates against sophists.
4. Plato: philosophy as a way of love.
5. Aristotle: first philosophical system.
6. Philosophy in searching for happines: great hellenistic schools.
6.1. Skeptics.
6.2. Epicureans.
6.3. Stoics.
7. Between faith and reason: selected questions of medieval philosophy.
8. In searching for certainty or the birth of modern philosophy. Rene Descertes.
9. British empiricism.
10. Nor experience, nor reason; then what? Kantian solution.
11. Philosophy of faith: from Pascal to Kierkegaard.
12. Reevaluation of all values by Friedrich Nietzsche and its consequences.
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Completing the course student will:
• distinguish philosophy from non-philosophical subjects,
• recognize specific philosophical positions and its representing thinkers,
• give specific philosophical questions and exemplary answers to these questions,
• distinguish philosophical thesis from supporting arguments,
• analyze chosen philosophical statements in regard of their philosophical thesis,
• juxtapose chosen opposed philosophical positions (for example: rationalism against empiricism).
Assessment criteria
Final written exam.
Bibliography
1. Obligatory readings.
• Plato. Gorgias.
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. From genealogy of morality.
2. Recomended/additional readings.
• Copleston, Frederic. History of Philosophy. V. I-IX.
• Höffe, Otfried. Small History of Philosophy.
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