UNIT 1: Beginnings of Greek Thought. Presocratics, Sophists, and Socrates
Topic 1.1. Wonder and Philosophy. The Greeks and Western Culture. A general overview of Homer, Hesiod, and the religious diversity of archaic Greece.
Topic 1.2. The questions of the first philosophers
Topic 1.3. Pythagorean thought and its legacy to culture
Topic 1.4. Heraclitus of Ephesus
Topic 1.5. Parmenides and the post-Parmenidean systems
Topic 1.6. The Sophists: the thirst for culture
Topic 1.7. Socrates: the invitation to interiority
UNIT 2: Plato and the Horizon of Metaphysics
Topic 2.1. The philosopher in his context
Topic 2.2. Meno
Topic 2.3. Being and knowing
Topic 2.4. The Symposium
UNIT 3: Plato: Man and Society
Topic 3.1. Concept of Man. Phaedo
Topic 3.2. The cosmology of the Timaeus
Topic 3.3. The ideal state and its historical forms. The Republic
UNIT 4: Aristotle and the First Systematization of Knowledge
Topic 4.1. Aristotle in his context
Topic 4.2. Theory of science
Topic 4.3. First Philosophy
Topic 4.4. Physics as the philosophy of natural being
Topic 4.5. God
UNIT 5: Aristotle: Man and Society
Topic 5.1. Psychology
Topic 5.2. Practical life: ethics and politics
UNIT 6: Hellenistic Philosophy
Topic 6.1. Situation of philosophy after Aristotle?s death
Topic 6.2. Epicureanism
Topic 6.3. The Roman version of Hellenistic philosophy: Stoicism and Seneca
Topic 6.4. The confluence of biblical thought with Hellenism
Topic 6.5. Neoplatonism. Plotinus and the end of ancient philosophy
For the development of the course, the following strategies will be used:
Expository method: Presentation of theoretical content.
Analysis of texts and documents: Personal reading of materials covering the main contents of the course. Individual preparation and group discussions in sessions (either face-to-face or virtual).
Oral presentation method: Student presentations and oral reports.
Written presentation method: Students respond to and submit questionnaires on the thematic units.
To be evaluated in the ordinary examination period, all activities subject to evaluation must have been completed. The evaluable activities must be submitted on the dates indicated by the professor. If, for any duly justified reason communicated to the professor, the activities could not be submitted within the established period, they may be submitted before the date of the course exam so that the professor can grade them. However, in this case, the professor is not obliged to provide feedback on those activities to the student.
On the other hand, the student has the right to take the final written exam even if they have not submitted all other evaluable activities. However, the final grade for the course will only be calculated if all activities have been submitted, according to the evaluation criteria and weighting established in this teaching guide. If any evaluable activity has not been submitted or completed, it will be recorded in the official record as ?Not presented? for that exam period.
EXTRAORDINARY EXAMINATION PERIOD (IN-PERSON/REMOTE):
The evaluation criteria are the same as for the ordinary examination period, so all evaluation activities planned throughout the course must be submitted. Grades for activities already completed (including the final written exam) will be kept while awaiting completion of pending activities. The same weighting criteria applied in the ordinary evaluation will be used. This measure will only apply during the current academic year; if the extraordinary examination is not passed, renewing the enrollment will imply retaking the entire course.
ABOUT THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS:
Limitation and/or prohibition of AI tools: The use of AI is prohibited in this subject/activity. Therefore, the use of such tools by students will be considered academic fraud and will be subject to the existing regulations for these infractions.
Attendance and participation: 15%
Written exercices in the classroom: 20%
Partial test: 25%
Final test: 40%
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