Philosophy of Religion (20121)

Degree/Study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd
Term:1st
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: Catalan
Teaching Staff:  Amador Vega

1. Presentation of the subject

2. Competences to be attained

General competences	Specific competences
1)    Studying the most relevant elements, fundamental issues, historical episodes, schools and authors in European spirituality (14th-21st centuries). 2)    Developing a personal opinion on readings of philosophical-religious texts	1)    Reading texts by Meister Eckhart and his disciples in great depth. 2)    Knowing, identifying and understanding the fundamental bibliography on Meister Eckhart. 3)    Knowing, identifying and understanding the fundamental bibliography on European medieval spirituality.

3. Contents

There will be readings of texts with the full group in every session. Therefore, there will be no difference between the master classes and the seminars.
1.    Criticism of religion in the 21st century.
2.    Hermeneutics of the life and work of Meister Eckhart.
3.    The Latin biblical commentaries and the German sermons.
4.    The Greco-Latin, Jewish and Arabic sources in the thought of Eckhart.
5.    Reading and commentary of some sermons and treaties.
6.    European spiritual tradition: the Rhenish-Flemish school in the German Romanticism and Idealism.
7.    Readers of Eckhart in the Kyoto School.
8.    Eckhart and Phenomenology: M. Henry, M. Heidegger, J. Derrida.
9.    Eckhart in Literature, Poetry and Art.
10.    Criticism of the Religious Consciousness.

4. Assessment

*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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