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Course name | Introduction to Western Philosophy |
Course ID | 08.1-WH-UZ-F-IWPh- 1 |
Faculty | Faculty of Humanities |
Field of study | WH - oferta ERASMUS / Philosophy |
Education profile | - |
Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
Beginning semester | winter term 2024/2025 |
Semester | 1 |
ECTS credits to win | 10 |
Course type | obligatory |
Teaching language | english |
Author of syllabus |
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The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
Introduction to the philosophical ideas developed by thinkers related to the development of Western philosophy.
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This course aim is to introduce the most fundamental contributions to Western philosophy made by thinkers over the centuries. The time span stretches from the sixth century BC to the first half of the last century. The philosophers covered include: pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, William of Ockham, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, N. Machiavelli, Erasmus, Thomas More, Thomas Hobbes, R. Descartes, B. Pascal, B. Spinoza, John Locke, George Berkeley, J. J. Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, G. W. Hegel, S. Kierkegaard, , K. Marx, L. Wittgenstein, B. Russell, M. Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Popper and C. Levi-Strauss.
Each meeting comprises the following parts:
A general description of a given philosopher or a philosophical system related to the reading assignment for the current meeting.
A presentation given by selected students describing the reading assignment for the current meeting.
A discussion of the ideas presented in 1., 2. and in the reading assignment.
A reading assignment for the next meeting. This will be a text representative of a given philosophical system or a specific philosopher.
Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
LEARNING OUTCOMES VERIFICATION AND assessment criteria:
Students will be evaluated in relation to each of the parts 1.-4. as follows:
General knowledge of the presented philosophical systems (a test at the end of the term).
Student contribution to the preparation of the assigned presentation (evaluation during presentation).
Activity during discussion (evaluation during discussion).
Knowledge of the assigned reading (evaluation during meetings).
The final grade is a weighted sum of the above partial grades.
Recommended reading:
Kenny, A New History of Western Philosophy, Oxford University Press 2011.
The Problems of Philosophy, B. Russell, various editions
Plato, Symposium
Aristotle, Metaphysics
R. Bacon, On Experimental Science
Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
F. Bacon, Novum Organum Scientarum
Thomas More,Utopia
R. Descartes, Discourse on the Method
F. Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
D. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
J. J. Rousseau, The Social Contract
I. Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
K. Marx, F. Engels, Communist Manifesto
K. Popper, Logic of Scientific Discovery
Modified by dr Paweł Walczak, prof. UZ (last modification: 10-12-2024 13:18)