Traslatorium: Natural Law and Natural Rights

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Course ID:	WF-FI-212-TRACEB19
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Traslatorium: Natural Law and Natural Rights
Name in Polish:	T: Natural Law and Natural Rights
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	FI2_W06 FI2_W14 FI2_U12 FI2_U13 FI2_K08
Short description:	The course will consist in close reading of selected fragments of philosophical texts of John Finnis along with the translation of those fragments into Polish.
Full description:	The series of classes will consist of three parts. In the first part, students will become acquainted with the general theory of natural law as presented by John Finnis. The second part of the course will consist in working on (i.e. analysis + translation of) fragments of the book by John Finnis "Natural Law and Natural Rights". In the third part of the course sudents will analyse/translate fragments of selected articles of John Finnis. While analysing/translating fragments of the selected text, students will become familiarised withbasic problems raised in the contemporary metaethical debates. When translating the philosophical text, particular attention will be paid to the precise recognition and proper rendering of its original meaning, the lexical correctness of the translation, as well as the naturalness of the applied stylistic / idiomatic solutions.
Bibliography:	1. John Finnis "Natural Law and Natural Rights", Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980; 2nd ed., 2011 2. John Finnis and Germain Grisez "The misuse of <<Amoris Laetitia>> to support errors against Catholic faith", First Things, 2016, https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/12/an-open-letter-to-pope-francis 3. John Finnis "Grounds and preparations for the main thesis of <<Veritatis Splendor>>", Studia Philosophiae Christianae,, UKSW, 51(2015)2, https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/spch/issue/view/112
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Students should develop the ability to analyse philosophical texts written in a foreign language as well as extend their competences in the translation of philosophical texts from English into Polish acquire the competences necessary to translate difficult philosophical texts from Polish into English acquire the skills of deepening their linguistic competences by use of available sources Translating fragments of the philosophical texts will also give students the opportunity to *become familiar with the general issues considered in the field of metaethics.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The evaluation will be based on the active participation of students in classes, and a fragment of the analyzed text (500 words) individually translated into Polish by individual students.

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