ML: Polish Medieval Political Philosophy

elementary

FI2_W02 FI2_W10 FI2_W11 FI2_U03 FI2_U06 FI2_U07 FI2_U08 FI2_U13 FI2_K08

The aim of the course is to introduce students with the Polish political philosophy of the Middle Ages. The main emphasis will be on the so-called Polish school of law operating in the 15th century, in particular on the conciliar movement, the theory of just war, the concept of rights, the issue of property rights, etc. Polish medieval political thought will be presented against the background of European political disputes, as well as in the context of historical events in Poland and Europe

The aim of the course is to introduce students with the Polish political philosophy of the Middle Ages. The main emphasis will be on the so-called Polish school of law operating in the 15th century, in particular on the conciliar movement, the theory of just war, the concept of rights, the issue of property rights, etc. Polish medieval political thought will be presented against the background of European political disputes, as well as in the context of historical events in Poland and Europe

1. Belch, Stanislaw F., Paulus Vladimiri and his doctrine concerning international law and politcs, vol. I, Mouton & Co., London-The Hague-Paris 1965

2. Burns, J.H. (ed.), 1988, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c. 350–c. 1450, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

3. Canning, Joseph, 1996, A History of Medieval Political Thought 300–1450, London: Routledge.

4. Gierke, Otto Friedrich von, 1900, Political Theories of the Middle Age, Frederic William Maitland (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

5. Hagerlund, Hendrik (ed.), 2010, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, New York: Springer:

a. Kilcullen, John, ‘Natural Law”, pp. 831–839.

b. Kilcullen, John, ‘Natural Rights’, pp. 867–873.

6. Knoll, P. W., A Pearl of Powerful Learning. The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2016.

7. Lecler, Joseph, [1955] 1960, Toleration and the Reformation (Histoire de la tolérance au siècle de la Réforme), 2 volumes, T.L. Westow (trans.), London: Longmans.

8. Mäkinen, Virpi and Petter Korkman (eds.), 2006, Transformations in Medieval and Early-Modern Rights Discourse, Dordrecht: Springer.

9. Mäkinen, Virpi, 2001, Property Rights in the Late Medieval Discussion on Franciscan Poverty, Leuven: Peeters.

10. Miller, Fred D., Jr., 1995, Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

11. Nederman, Cary J., 1990, “Conciliarism and Constitutionalism: Jean Gerson and Medieval Political Thought”, History of European Ideas, 12: 189–209.

12. Paweł Włodkowic, Pisma wybrane, t. I-III, wyd. L. Ehrlich, Warszawa 1966-1969.

13. Płotka, Magdalena, Privare aliquem iure suo est contra ius naturale. On Paul Vladimiri's Natural Rights Theory, “Ethical Perspectives” 1 (2017), s. 21-37.

14. Tierney B., Liberty and law. The idea of permissive natural law, 1100-1800, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington 2014.

The student knows and understands in an extended way the place and meaning of philosophy in relation to other sciences as well as the subject and methodological specificity of philosophy; knows and comprehensively and thoroughly understands the views of selected leading philosophical authors and the current state of research in the field of selected philosophical issues; knows and understands the historical development of leading philosophical ideas at the level enabling specialization in the history of medieval philosophy;

The student is able to creatively use philosophical and methodological knowledge in formulating hypotheses and constructing critical arguments; can determine the degree of relevance (relevance) of theses for the investigated problem or argumentation; is able to detect complex dependencies between the formation of philosophical ideas and social and cultural processes and determine the relations between these dependencies. Additionally, they can identify typical argumentation strategies in oral and written statements and can independently translate a difficult philosophical text from a selected foreign language into Polish.

The student is ready to constantly deepen his language skills and independently use the available sources for this purpose

a) Description of ECTS

- activity on the e-learning platform (30 hours);

-preparation for classes / work on the e-learning platform (30 hours)

- preparation for the test (15 hours)

b) Pass conditions

The pass mark is to write a test covering the content of the classes on the Moodle platform.

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