15FLFL001 - Hellenic Philosophy

Course specification
Course title Hellenic Philosophy
Acronym 15FLFL001
Study programme Philosophy
Module
Type of study first degree undergraduate academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
    Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
      ESPB 10.0 Status
      Condition none Oblik uslovljenosti
      The goal Hellenic philosophy is a spiritual and historical fundament of the integral philosophical tradition. In this subject, philosophy is established as a specific form of human spirit, the fundamental philosophical questions are asked and key philosophical terms and categories are formed. The aim of the course Hellenic philosophy is to familiarize students with the sense of ontologocal turnover in which the philosophy is creating as well as with key terms and ideals of ancient greek philosophers, on a general level and in particular important elaborations. The study of this cours should enable the understanding of an impact of the hellenic philosophical traditions which it has on the development of the latter philosophy, as one of the leading philosophical matrices of a whole west civilization.
      The outcome Formation of the students to overmaster the basic doctrines and terms of the Hellenic philosophy in both, systematic and historic way. Students acquire the skills of terminological communication with ancient heritage as well as insight in consequences of the westernization of classic Greek terms and ideas.
      Contents
      Contents of lectures The sources for observation of Greek philosophy; Mythology and philosophy (teogony and cosmogony; mythos and logos; eastern wisdom and Greek sophia); Culture of polis; Periodization of the geek philosophy; Creating of philosophical language; The seven wise men; „Physicists” of Milets; Pythagoras and Pythagoreans; Heraclitus; Eleatic school; Empedocles; Atomistic philosophy; Anaxagoras; Sophistic philosophy (sophos and sophistes; oppositions physis-nomos; Man as a measure| „Man is the measure off all things”); Socrates (irony and definition; the virtue is knowledge; the virtue is only one; Socrates as a founder of morality and ethics; Socratic schools); Plato and the Academy (Politeia and justice; Politeia and paideia; „the theory of forms| ideas” and allegory of the cave; the problem of cognition; the Plato’s psychology ; the Plato’s cosmology; the Plato’s critic of arts; the old Academy).
      Contents of exercises Seminar The analysis of original philosophical texts
      Literature
      1. Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels (Forgotten Books) Paperback – October 16, 2008.
      2. Plato, Complete works, (Edited by John Cooper), Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1977.
      3. Plato, Complete works, (Edited by John Cooper), Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1977.
      4. Plato, Complete works, (Edited by John Cooper), Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1977.
      5. Plato, Complete works, (Edited by John Cooper), Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1977.
      6. Plato, Complete works, (Edited by John Cooper), Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1977.
      7. Hegel’s Lectures on The History of Philosophy, (Translated from the German by E. S. Haldane), Vol. 1, 2, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Broadway House, London, 1955.
      8. Windelband, W., A History of Philosophy, The Macmillan Company, 1905.
      9. Copleston, F., A History of Philosophy, Vol. I, Greece and Rome, Image Books, Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1993.
      10. Perović, M.A., A History of Philosophy.
      11. Kaluđerović, Ž., Presocratic Understanding of Justice.
      Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
      Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
      4 2
      Methods of teaching Comparative method, interactive method (work on the original fragments and text analysis)
      Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
      Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
      Activites during lectures 5 Test paper 20
      Practical lessons 0 Oral examination 50
      Projects 0
      Colloquia 10
      Seminars 15
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