Greco-Latin Thought (20127)
Degree/study:Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd -4th
Term:3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125
Teaching language or languages: Spanish
Teaching Staff: Emilio Suárez de la Torre
1. Presentation of the subject
Study and interpretation of the most important historical periods, schools, movements, works and authors of the philosophical reflection during the Greco-Latin antiquity.
2. Competences to be attained
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1. INSTRUMENTAL COMPETENCES • Knowing and interpreting academic essays in a correct and reasonable way. • Being able to justify opinions with proper arguments and to defend them publicly. 2. PERSONAL COMPETENCES • Teamwork skills. Being able to take an active part in tasks and negotiate when there is a different opinion in order to reach agreement. • Having an independent reasoning and an analytical distance when dealing with controversial topics. • Knowing that the diversity of viewpoints is essential for academic life and consubstantial to contemporary society. Being able to give opinions respecting differing opinions. • Being self-disciplined and rigorous when working as well as when organising and planning academic work. 3. SYSTEMIC COMPETENCES • Being curious and wishing to know what is unknown, which is essential to study and work. • Being able to put the acquired knowledge into practice in a flexible and creative way and to adapt oneself to different contexts and situations. • Being able to progress in an independent and constant way. |
1. DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE - Understanding how literature, history, art, religion, science and philosophy interact. - Analysing and understanding philosophical texts. - Analysing philosophical texts and reaching coherent conclusions. -Connecting an author' thought to his background, opponents, supporters or subsequent movements. -Being able to recognise the main ways of thinking of the Greco-Roman world. 2. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES • Being able to interpret written texts in a reasonable and proficient way, in order to elaborate a justified opinion. • Being able to connect diverse information and documents which come from different fields in order to get an integrated and transverse perspective. 3. ACADEMIC COMPETENCES • Knowing that knowledge is transverse and that it is convenient to combine different academic fields. It is especially important to overcome the division between the so-called two cultures: humanistic and scientific.
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3. Contents
1. General introduction. The concept of 'philosophy' in the Ancient World. The logic of myth and the myth of reason.
2. Towards the "philosophical thought". From the East to Greece. On "poetry and philosophy".
3. The response to physis' astonishment. The Milesian thinkers.
4. Between philosophy, science and religion: Pithagoreanism.
5. The multiplicity of philosophical expressions: (a) Heraclitus, (b) Parmenides and the Eleatic tradition, (c) Empedocles.
6. The Sophistic Movement: cultural revision in the heart of the polis.
7. The Socratic thought and Plato. Word, dialogue and memory. The man, the soul, the city.
8. The Aristotelian turn: philosophy, method and science.
9. The Hellenistic schools: Academy, Lyceum; Cynics, Epicureans, Stoics. Their influence in Rome.
10. Greek philosophy during the Imperial period: the importance of Neo-Platonism.
*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.
4. Assessment
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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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