(in Polish) Social Philosophy 3800-ISP-SocP
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
Lecture: J.P. Vernant, The Origins of Greek Thought
- Aristotle, Politics, Book I
- St. Thomas, On Kingship, Book I
Lecture: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII and S. Schwarzenbach, “Fraternity, solidarity, and civic friendship”, Amity 2015
- T. More, Utopia (fragments)
- Machiavelli, The Prince (fragments)
Lecture: T. Hobbes, Leviathan, The Introduction, Ch. I-IV, and P. Pettit, Made with words (fragments)
- T. Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. XIII-XIV.
- J. Locke, Second Treatise of Government (fragments)
Lecture: Rawls and Nozick on social contract
- J.J. Rousseau, The Social Contract (fragments)
- I. Kant, On the common saying: That may be correct in theory, but it is of no use in practice
Lecture: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
- J. G. Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation (fragments)
- G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Preface
Lecture: Axel Honneth and the theory of recognition
- K. Marx, Economic-Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (fragments);
- M. Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, ch. II and V
Lecture: K. Marx, The German Ideology (fragments)
- C. Schmitt, Political Theology (fragments)
- M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: Panopticism
Lecture: Arendt, The Human condition
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