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Course code: BHS10009f11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: mgr Eugeniusz Sadziński
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student learns the basic notions and issues of philosophy; acquires knowledge about a man of the West and his efforts made in search of values and meanings and their validation.
Competences: Completion of the course enables a student to understand better the characteristic of the West-European culture, to understand oneself and one’s own place in the world better.
Prerequisites: The humanities within the secondary school curriculum.
Course content: Contestations about the notion of philosophy. Theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy. Philosophy as a search for a view about the world and a man’s place in the world. Platonic notion of the Eros’ way as a way of philosophy. Christian revelation and medieval philosophy. Carthesian turning point in philosophy. The myth of mind and demythologisation of the world in modern philosophy. The idea of progress and its fall. The aspects of nihilism in philosophy and literature. Ecological philososphy as a trial in search of new solutions for fundamental dilemmas of a contemporary man.
Recommended literature: Domański J., Metamorphoses of a notion of philosophy, Warsaw 1996 Popkin R.H., Stroll A., Philosophy, Poznan 1994 Tatarkiewicz W., History of philosophy, volumes 1-3, Warsaw 1970
Assessment methods: Compulsory written or orall pass Level of knowledge required to complete: 60%
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