History of sociological thought WSE-SO-HMSiS
1. Greek philosophical thought: A master who knew he knew nothing, and a student who knew more than he had seen- 2 h.
2. Aristotle's "golden mean" philosophy
3. Humanistic philosophy of the Middle Ages: St. Augustine, St. Tomasz - 2h.
4.Philosophy of humanism. Descartes, Hobbes - 2h.
5. The shadows of the philosophy of enlightenment (1): Locke, Hume - 2h.
6. The shadows of the philosophy of enlightenment (2): Immanuel Kant, Hegel 2h.
7. The unfortunate "Columbus" of philosophy: Jan Jacob Rousseau - 2h.
8. Positivism and empiricism: Comte, Mill 2h.
9. Two kinds of Materialism: Marx and Marxists, pragmatism - 2h.
10. Blaise Pascal: the swaying reed- 2h.
11. Artur Schopenhauer's the Passion of Life 2 h.
12. Friedrich Nietzsche's The crazy ship - 2h.
13. Either Soren Kierkegaard or? - 2h.
14. Henri Bergson's intuition - 2h.
15. The phenomenon of Cardinal Newman's philosophy - 2h.
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Learning outcomes
1. Identifies the earlier achievements of philosophic thought, with particular emphasis on social philosophy and their relationship with sociological thought.
2. Recognizes the main theoretical approaches of early philosophic thought (basic concepts, categories, metaphors, models) and their representatives.
3. Is aware of the historical context of the development of certain theoretical approaches and their disappearance.
Skills:
4. Uses a philosophical perspective to view social facts and their interpretation.
5. It refers to the achievements of various currents of early philosophical thought in perceiving and explaining social facts.
Competences:
1. Is able to use his knowledge and philosophical skills in the framework of various theoretical approaches.
2. Is able to apply knowledge and philosophical skills within various theoretical approaches in his professional career, especially during sociological studies and in his personal life.
3. Maintains openness to points of view different from his own.
Assessment criteria
A student has to choose between three forms of credit for the course
• oral exam, basic knowledge of material - dst; knowledge and full understanding of the material elements - db, full knowledge of the material, advanced understanding - very good, independent and creative understanding and full knowledge of the required material - very good plus
• translation of about 20 pages of text from English, French, German or Russian indicated by the lecturer, the area associated with the object (note, only for students who have left most one lecture per semester): Understanding, loyal, very good Polish language translation - very good, as above, but with a few shortcomings - db, accurate translation of text to understand the shortcomings - dst
• presentation on a given topic from the scope of the subject, a volume of about 50 pages (frames) beware! Only students who have left most one lecture per semester; Work done with full understanding, informative - very good, the work done with the understanding( no less than 75% of the material), honestly - db, work done with an understanding (of about 50 - 74% of the material), in principle, reliably - dst;
NOTE: electronic version no later than one month before the last semester lecture !!!
Note: Any objection to the entries in the USOS should be reported no later than a week after the exam date !!!
Bibliography
1. Frederic Coplestone, History of Philosophy - 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 v, (excerpts related to the lecture)
2. Bertrand Russel, A History of Western Philosophy - (excerpts related to the lecture)
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