Conducted in terms: 2021/22_L, 2022/23_L, 2023/24_L

ECTS credits: 2

Language: Polish

Organized by: Faculty of Humanities

History of Philosophy WH-KU-I-1-HistFil-W

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The subject of lectures is a medieval Christian philosophy, its formation and functioning in the framework of the medieval Christian culture. The second part of the lectures is Arab and Jewish philosophy, the philosophy, and the last part is Italian Renaissance.
Issues of classes: the Jewish and early Christian philosophy: Philo of Alexandria; Clement of Alexandria and the discussion on the Greek philosophical tradition; the idea of the Logos in the early Christian philosophy; patristic philosophy. St. Augustine: Augustinian conception of philosophy; man and cognition; God, the nature and the existence of God; the Divine state and the earthly state; Augustinian idealism. Medieval philosophy: change of the nature of philosophy, the mentality of the medieval, classical sources of medieval philosophy; universities and scholasticism; reception of Greco-Arabic teaching; reception of Aristotle's thought; the impact of Arab and Jewish philosophers. The main problems of medieval philosophy: a new concept of philosophy (philosophy and liberal arts, philosophy and theology); dispute about universals. The problem of the existence and nature of God in medieval philosophy. The question of nature in medieval philosophy: the figurative and symbolic meaning of the cosmos, the idea of dual revelation; the school of Chartres and the ennoblement of nature; the discovery of natural works of Aristotle. Anthropology and moral philosophy in the Middle Ages: John Scot Eriugena, the question of original sin and the fall of man, the question of soul and body, and the issue of human freedom; anthropology St. Thomas Aquinas. State and society in medieval philosophy: medieval conceptions of a theocratic state and the secular state. Arabic philosophy: Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Awerroes.Philosophy of Renaissance: the spirit of the Renaissance, Renaissance humanism, renaissance of ancient philosophy.

Term 2021/22_L:

1. General introduction to modern philosophy.
1.1. The problem of sources of knowledge. Psychological and epistemological version of the issue. Apriorism and empiricism (extreme and moderate). The dispute of empiricism and apriorism over the nature of mathematical theorems. Conventionalism. Kant's moderate apiororism. A priori cognition according to phenomenologists. Rationalism and irrationalism.
1.2. The problem of the limits of cognition. Two understandings of transcendence. The problem of immanent limits of cognition. Epistemological immanent idealism (Berkeley, Hume). Epistemological immanent realism. Epistemological transcendental idealism. Kant's transcendental idealism. Realism. Positivism. Neopositivism.
1.3 Metaphysical issues. The problem of ideal objects. The dispute over universals. A modern version of the dispute over universals. Subjective idealism. Objective idealism. Hegel's dialectic. Hegel's dialectics and Marx's dialectics. Metaphysical realism. Naive and critical realism.
2. Selected representatives of modern philosophy.
2.1 Descartes. Descartes method. The truth criterion. Getting to know God and the world. Epistemology. Philosophy of nature. Anthropology. The issue of freedom. Descartes' successors. Melabranche. Melabrache's occasionalism and ontologism. Spinoza. Spinoza's rationalism and pantheism. The identity of the spiritual and corporeal being. Spinoza's Anthropology and Ethics.
2.2 Francis Bacon. Bacon's new method.
2.3 Galileo. The Scientific Method of Galileo.
2.4 Tomasz Hobbes. Materialism and sensualism. Determinism. Naturalistic theory of society.
2.5 Edward Herbert of Cherbury and the concept of natural religion.
2.6 John Locke and empiricism. The science of the formation of concepts. Locke's theory of ideas. Locke's Political Philosophy.
2.7 Anthony Ashley Cooper and the concept of natural morality.
2.8 Kant. Kant's Criticism. Criticism of pure reason. Criticism of practical reason. Philosophy of law. Philosophy of Religion. Frederick Henryk Jacobi as a critic of Kant.
2.9 German idealism. Fichte. Pure subjective idealism of Fichte. Hegel. The subject and general principles of Hegel's philosophy. Hegel's dialectic. Logic. Philosophy of nature. Philosophy of spirit. Hegelian philosophy of law and state.
2.10 Jan Fryderyk Herbart and the critique of idealism. Herbart's realism.
3. Modern socio-economic philosophy.
3.1 Social philosophy of mercantilism.
3.2 Socio-economic philosophy of physiocrats.
3.3 Adam Smith's socio-economic philosophy. The concept of "homo oeconomicus".
4. Elements of contemporary philosophy.
4.1 The issue of directness and indirectness of cognition. The theory of direct cognition in phenomenology. Cartesian idea of methodological doubt and Husserl's transcendental reduction.
4.2 Criticism of the idea of direct cognition, Cartesian doubt, and phenomenological reduction in contemporary philosophy. Peirce's theory of indirect cognition. Sign theory. Criticism of the idea of epoche (assumptionlessness of cognition). Peirce's pragmatism. Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms.
4.3. Hermeneutics. Friedrich Schleiermacher. Johan Gustaw Droysen. Wilhelm Dilthey. Gadamer. Bettie's realistic hermeneutics.
4.4 Konrad Lorenz's cognitive realism.
4.5 Scheler and Hartmann's phenomenological philosophy of values.
5. Existentialism.
5.1 Kierkegard. The principal existential problem of Kierkegard. The Socratic paradox and the Kierkegard solution. Skepticism and faith.
5.2 Nietzsche.
5.3 Contemporary existentialism. Heideger. Sartre.

Term 2022/23_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning

Term 2021/22_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs)

Term 2022/23_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs)

Term 2020/21_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy

Term 2019/20_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs)

(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych

(in Polish) nie dotyczy

(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS

ECTS credits: 30 h - lecture - 1 point 30 h - exam preparation and reading - 1 point

Subject level

elementary

Learning outcome code/codes

KU1_W02 KU1_U05 KU1_K01

Preliminary Requirements

(in Polish) Brak wymagań wstępnych

Course coordinators

Term 2021/22_L:

Dorota Dąbrowska
Kazimierz Pawłowski
Agnieszka Smaga
Joanna Zajkowska

Term 2022/23_L:

Robert Pawlik
Joanna Zajkowska
Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska

Term 2023/24_L:

Robert Pawlik
Joanna Zajkowska
Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska

Term 2019/20_L:

Kazimierz Pawłowski
Agnieszka Smaga

Term 2020/21_L:

Robert Pawlik
Agnieszka Smaga

Learning outcomes

KU1_W02:
The student has structured knowledge in the field of research methodology appropriate to the humanities and selected social sciences
KUI_U05:
The student is able to independently acquire knowledge and develop research skills, following the instructions of the research tutor
KU1_K01:
The student is aware of the scope of the acquired knowledge and understands the need for lifelong learning

Description of ECTS:
30 h - participation in the lecture - 1 point
30 h - preparation for the lecture (reading the reading) - 1 point

Assessment criteria

Classes in the semester end with an exam. The exam covers material taught during both semesters. The exam is oral.
In 2020, due to the fact that a large part of the classes takes place on the Moodle platform. credits (exam) will also take place on the Moodle platform. The exam will be in the form of a written work. Students will receive a set of examination theses on time, from which they will choose three theses, which they will develop in writing using the lectures and materials received on the Moodle platform. Students will send the work in the form of a file (Office) in response to a given task on the Moodle platform. Additionally - to increase the grade obtained from the examination paper - students will be able to send a paper on any topic from the material processed. This topic should be agreed with the teacher.

ECTS credits:
30 h - lecture - 1 point
30 h - preparation for the exam - 1 point

Bibliography

K. Pawłowski: skrypt do wykładu w wersji elektronicznej (podawany sukcesywnie na platformie Moodle)

Literatura pomocnicza do wykładu:
K. Ajdukiewicz, Zagadnienia i kierunki filozofii, Warszawa 2003
W. Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii, wyd. dowolne
R.H. Popkin, Filozofia, Poznań 1994
D. Collinson, Pięćdziesięciu wielkich filozofów, Poznań 1997
Z. Kuderowicz red., Filozofia XX wieku, Warszawa 2002
A. Miś, Filozofia współczesna, Warszawa 2003

Term 2021/22_L:

K. Pawłowski: skrypt do wykładu w wersji elektronicznej (podawany w częściach na platformie Moodle)

K. Ajdukiewicz, Zagadnienia i kierunki filozofii, Warszawa 2003
W. Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii, wyd. dowolne
R.H. Popkin, Filozofia, Poznań 1994
D. Collinson, Pięćdziesięciu wielkich filozofów, Poznań 1997
Z. Kuderowicz red., Filozofia XX wieku, Warszawa 2002
A. Miś, Filozofia współczesna, Warszawa 2003

Term 2022/23_L:

K. Pawłowski: skrypt do wykładu w wersji elektronicznej (podawany w częściach na platformie Moodle)

Term 2023/24_L:

K. Pawłowski: skrypt do wykładu w wersji elektronicznej (podawany w częściach na platformie Moodle)

Notes

Term 2021/22_L:

None

Term 2022/23_L:

None

Term 2023/24_L:

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