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History of Ancient Philosophy II

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Course ID: WH-FK-I-2-HisFilozSt
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: History of Ancient Philosophy II
Name in Polish: Historia filozofii starożytnej 2
Organizational unit: Faculty of Humanities
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 2.00 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.
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Language: Polish
Subject level:

elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:

FK1_W04

FK1_U05

FK1_K01
Short description:

Lectures on the history of ancient philosophy this semester are a continuation of the lectures from the previous semester. They are intended to show, based on the available texts and testimonies of philosophical literature, the most important philosophical ideas developed by Greek philosophers, as well as how these ideas were born, functioned and what they were in the life of the philosophers themselves and in ancient culture in general. The basis is the reading of source texts, in this semester, apart from "Lives and Views of Famous Philosophers" by Diogenes Laertius, also selected works of Plato, Aristotle, some of the Stoics, Epicurus, Cicero.
Full description:

Subject matter of the course:

Plato: an existential aspect of Plato's philosophy, Orphic legacy in the philosophy of Plato, Platonic mysticism, Plato's theory of the idea, Platonic idealism, Platonic inspirations in the Christian philosophy and spirituality.

Aristotle: logics, metaphysics, cosmology and psychology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy.

Hellenistic philosophy - civilization, cultural and moral transformation in Greece,

Hellenistic philosophical schools and their role in the cultural and moral transformation; common features of Hellenistic philosophy; philosophy as a moral and intellectual formation.

Other aspects of the spiritual culture of the Hellenistic era (renaissance of Greek mysteries, the influx of eastern mysteries).

Pyrrho of Elida and skepticism: Pyrrho's guiding features of skepticism; skepticism of the Platonic Academy.

Zeno of Kition and stoicism; ethical and practical dimension of the philosophy of stoicism, stoic philosophy of the Logos and natural law; stoic ethics and the most important stoic moral ideals.

Epicurus and his philosophical mission, Epicurean atomism as the prospect of seeing and solving all physical, ontological and moral problems.

Philosophical schools in the period of the Roman Empire: Cynicism, Stoicism, Pythagoreism, middle Platonism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, "Chaldean Oracles".

Neo-Platonism, the common features of the philosophy of this period.
Bibliography:

Literatura:

Lektury:

Diogenes Laertios, Żywoty i poglądy słynnych filozofów"

Platon, wybrane dialogi

Arystoteles, Etyka nikomachejska (wybrane rozdziały)

Epikur, List do Menojkeusa,

Seneka, Listy (wybrane)

Cyceron, O naturze bogów,

Cyceron, O najwyższym stopniu dobra i zła

Podręczniki (zalecane):

G. Reale, Historia filozofii starożytnej, Lublin 1993 – 2002.

K.Pawłowski, Skrypt do wykładów, w wersji elektronicznej - wykłady zamieszczane sukcesywnie na platformie Moodle UKSW

Literatura dodatkowa (wyłącznie dla zainteresowanych):

K. Albert, O platońskim pojęciu filozofii, Warszawa 1991

P. Hadot, Filozofia jako ćwiczenie duchowe, Warszawa1992.

P. Hadot, Czym jest filozofia starożytna, Warszawa 2000.

P. Hadot, Plotyn albo prostota spojrzenia, Kęty 2002.

W. Jaeger, Paidea, Warszaw 2001.

L. Joachimowicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1972.

H. Jonas, Religia gnozy, Kraków 1994.

A. Krokiewicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1964.

A. Krokiewicz, Arystoteles, Pirron, Plotyn, Warszawa 1974.

A. Krokiewicz, Hedonizm Epikura, Warszawa 1961.

A. Krokiewicz, Zarys filozofii greckiej. Od Talesa do Platona, Warszawa 1971.

K. Leśniak, Arystoteles, Warszawa 1975.

K. Leśniak, Platon, Warszawa 1968.

G. Quispel, Gnoza, Warszawa 1988.

T. Szlezák, Czytanie Platona, Warszawa 1997;

T. Szlezak, O nowej interpretacji platońskich dialogów, Kęty 2005.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:

Classes are continuation of history of ancient philosophy, lectured in the last semester. Objectives are the same but they are implemented by other historical material. Basic aim of history of ancient philosophy study in 2nd semester is to acquire thorough knowledge from the philosophical culture of ancient Greece, from Plato till late Antiquity, and also skill of recognizing the main problems and philosophical motives typical for discussed period.

No less important is the fact, that student, thanks to that clasObjective learning outcomes adapted to philosophical literature

FK1_W04

Zna wybrane zagadnienia kontekstu historycznego i kulturowego fenomenów literackich w okresie starożytnym. Rozumie znaczenie kontekstu kulturowego i historycznego w dziejach i recepcji literatury.

FK1_U05

Potrafi wykorzystać w pracy znajomość kontekstu kulturowego, teorii recepcji, nauk pomocniczych.

FK1_K01:

Zdaje sobie sprawę z ograniczeń i niepełności posiadanej wiedzy, konieczności jej stałego pogłębiania; zdaje sobie sprawę ze stałej ewolucji tak nauk o literaturze jak i wiedzy o literaturze okresu starożytnego.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Course in a form of lecture. Within the bounds of possibility lectures are interactive and students are requested to actively participate. Partially it could assume the form of seminar- particular when it comes to easier topics, for instance as students' presentations, with audiovisual equipment or materials available on the Internet. Before the exam there will be held the general revision of the most relevant topics required for the exam. The effects of the education are verified mainly by the oral exam. In the same manner the appreciable influence for the final grade has students' commitment, included their attendance at lectures, presentations and participation in discussions. Students who attended every lecture, could complete also a written homework on the topic agreed with the lecturer. Lecturer could release from the exam students with very good grade. Course in a form of lecture. Within the bounds of possibility lectures are interactive and students are requested to actively participate. Partially it could assume the form of seminar- particular when it comes to easier topics, for instance as students' presentations, with audiovisual equipment or materials available on the Internet. Before the exam there will be held the general revision of the most relevant topics required for the exam. The effects of the education are verified mainly by the oral exam. In the same manner the appreciable influence for the final grade has students' commitment, included their attendance at lectures, presentations and participation in discussions.
Practical placement: (in Polish)

Brak.

Classes in period "Winter semester 2021/22" (past)

Time span: 2021-10-01 - 2022-01-31
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
Lectures, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Kazimierz Pawłowski
Group instructors: Kazimierz Pawłowski
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - examination
Lectures - examination
(in Polish) E-Learning:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy
Type of subject:

obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy
Short description:

Lectures on the history of ancient philosophy this semester are a continuation of the lectures from the previous semester. They are intended to show, based on the available texts and testimonies of philosophical literature, the most important philosophical ideas developed by Greek philosophers, as well as how these ideas were born, functioned and what they were in the life of the philosophers themselves and in ancient culture in general. The basis is the reading of source texts, in this semester, apart from "Lives and Views of Famous Philosophers" by Diogenes Laertius, also selected works of Plato, Aristotle, some of the Stoics, Epicurus, Cicero.
Full description:

Subject matter of the course:

Plato: an existential aspect of Plato's philosophy, Orphic legacy in the philosophy of Plato, Platonic mysticism, Plato's theory of the idea, Platonic idealism, Platonic inspirations in the Christian philosophy and spirituality.

Aristotle: logics, metaphysics, cosmology and psychology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy.

Hellenistic philosophy - civilization, cultural and moral transformation in Greece,

Hellenistic philosophical schools and their role in the cultural and moral transformation; common features of Hellenistic philosophy; philosophy as a moral and intellectual formation.

Other aspects of the spiritual culture of the Hellenistic era (renaissance of Greek mysteries, the influx of eastern mysteries).

Pyrrho of Elida and skepticism: Pyrrho's guiding features of skepticism; skepticism of the Platonic Academy.

Zeno of Kition and stoicism; ethical and practical dimension of the philoism, middle Platonism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, "Chaldean Oracles".

Neo-Platonism, the common features of the philosophy of this period.sophy of stoicism, stoic philosophy of the Logos and natural law; stoic ethics and the most important stoic moral ideals.

Epicurus and his philosophical mission, Epicurean atomism as the prospect of seeing and solving all physical, ontological and moral problems.

Philosophical schools in the period of the Roman Empire: Cynicism, Stoicism, Pythagore
Bibliography:

Literatura:

Lektury:

Diogenes Laertios, Żywoty i poglądy słynnych filozofów"

Platon, wybrane dialogi

Arystoteles, Etyka nikomachejska (wybrane rozdziały)

Epikur, List do Menojkeusa,

Seneka, Listy (wybrane)

Cyceron, O naturze bogów,

Cyceron, O najwyższym stopniu dobra i zła

Podręczniki (zalecane):

G. Reale, Historia filozofii starożytnej, Lublin 1993 – 2002.

K.Pawłowski, Skrypt do wykładów, w wersji elektronicznej - wykłady zamieszczane sukcesywnie na platformie Moodle UKSW

Literatura dodatkowa (wyłącznie dla zainteresowanych):

K. Albert, O platońskim pojęciu filozofii, Warszawa 1991

P. Hadot, Filozofia jako ćwiczenie duchowe, Warszawa1992.

P. Hadot, Czym jest filozofia starożytna, Warszawa 2000.

P. Hadot, Plotyn albo prostota spojrzenia, Kęty 2002.

W. Jaeger, Paidea, Warszaw 2001.

L. Joachimowicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1972.

H. Jonas, Religia gnozy, Kraków 1994.

A. Krokiewicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1964.

A. Krokiewicz, Arystoteles, Pirron, Plotyn, Warszawa 1974.

A. Krokiewicz, Hedonizm Epikura, Warszawa 1961.

A. Krokiewicz, Zarys filozofii greckiej. Od Talesa do Platona, Warszawa 1971.

K. Leśniak, Arystoteles, Warszawa 1975.

K. Leśniak, Platon, Warszawa 1968.

G. Quispel, Gnoza, Warszawa 1988.

T. Szlezák, Czytanie Platona, Warszawa 1997;

T. Szlezak, O nowej interpretacji platońskich dialogów, Kęty 2005.

Classes in period "Winter semester 2022/23" (past)

Time span: 2022-10-01 - 2023-01-31
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
Lectures, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Beata Gaj, Kazimierz Pawłowski, Joanna Zajkowska
Group instructors: Kazimierz Pawłowski
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - examination
Lectures - examination
(in Polish) E-Learning:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs)
(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS:

ECTS credits:

15 h - lecture - 1 point

15 h - preparation for the exam - 1 point
Type of subject:

obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy
Short description:

Lectures on the history of ancient philosophy this semester are a continuation of the lectures from the previous semester. They are intended to show, based on the available texts and testimonies of philosophical literature, the most important philosophical ideas developed by Greek philosophers, as well as how these ideas were born, functioned and what they were in the life of the philosophers themselves and in ancient culture in general. The basis is the reading of source texts, in this semester, apart from "Lives and Views of Famous Philosophers" by Diogenes Laertius, also selected works of Plato, Aristotle, some of the Stoics, Epicurus, Cicero.
Full description:

Subject matter of the course:

Plato: an existential aspect of Plato's philosophy, Orphic legacy in the philosophy of Plato, Platonic mysticism, Plato's theory of the idea, Platonic idealism, Platonic inspirations in the Christian philosophy and spirituality.

Aristotle: logics, metaphysics, cosmology and psychology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy.

Hellenistic philosophy - civilization, cultural and moral transformation in Greece,

Hellenistic philosophical schools and their role in the cultural and moral transformation; common features of Hellenistic philosophy; philosophy as a moral and intellectual formation.

Other aspects of the spiritual culture of the Hellenistic era (renaissance of Greek mysteries, the influx of eastern mysteries).

Pyrrho of Elida and skepticism: Pyrrho's guiding features of skepticism; skepticism of the Platonic Academy.

Zeno of Kition and stoicism; ethical and practical dimension of the philosophy of stoicism, stoic philosophy of the Logos and natural law; stoic ethics and the most important stoic moral ideals.

Epicurus and his philosophical mission, Epicurean atomism as the prospect of seeing and solving all physical, ontological and moral problems.

Philosophical schools in the period of the Roman Empire: Cynicism, Stoicism, Pythagoreism, middle Platonism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, "Chaldean Oracles".

Neo-Platonism, the common features of the philosophy of this period.
Bibliography:

Literatura:

Lektury:

Diogenes Laertios, Żywoty i poglądy słynnych filozofów"

Platon, wybrane dialogi

Arystoteles, Etyka nikomachejska (wybrane rozdziały)

Epikur, List do Menojkeusa,

Seneka, Listy (wybrane)

Cyceron, O naturze bogów,

Cyceron, O najwyższym stopniu dobra i zła

Podręczniki (zalecane):

G. Reale, Historia filozofii starożytnej, Lublin 1993 – 2002.

K.Pawłowski, Skrypt do wykładów, w wersji elektronicznej - wykłady zamieszczane sukcesywnie na platformie Moodle UKSW

Literatura dodatkowa (wyłącznie dla zainteresowanych):

K. Albert, O platońskim pojęciu filozofii, Warszawa 1991

P. Hadot, Filozofia jako ćwiczenie duchowe, Warszawa1992.

P. Hadot, Czym jest filozofia starożytna, Warszawa 2000.

P. Hadot, Plotyn albo prostota spojrzenia, Kęty 2002.

W. Jaeger, Paidea, Warszaw 2001.

L. Joachimowicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1972.

H. Jonas, Religia gnozy, Kraków 1994.

A. Krokiewicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1964.

A. Krokiewicz, Arystoteles, Pirron, Plotyn, Warszawa 1974.

A. Krokiewicz, Hedonizm Epikura, Warszawa 1961.

A. Krokiewicz, Zarys filozofii greckiej. Od Talesa do Platona, Warszawa 1971.

K. Leśniak, Arystoteles, Warszawa 1975.

K. Leśniak, Platon, Warszawa 1968.

G. Quispel, Gnoza, Warszawa 1988.

T. Szlezák, Czytanie Platona, Warszawa 1997;

T. Szlezak, O nowej interpretacji platońskich dialogów, Kęty 2005.

Classes in period "Winter semester 2023/24" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-01-31
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
Lectures, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Beata Gaj, Kazimierz Pawłowski, Joanna Zajkowska
Group instructors: Kazimierz Pawłowski
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - examination
Lectures - examination
(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS:

ECTS credits:

15 h - lecture - 1 point

15 h - preparation for the exam - 1 point
Type of subject:

obligatory
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych:

(in Polish) nie dotyczy
Short description:

Lectures on the history of ancient philosophy this semester are a continuation of the lectures from the previous semester. They are intended to show, based on the available texts and testimonies of philosophical literature, the most important philosophical ideas developed by Greek philosophers, as well as how these ideas were born, functioned and what they were in the life of the philosophers themselves and in ancient culture in general. The basis is the reading of source texts, in this semester, apart from "Lives and Views of Famous Philosophers" by Diogenes Laertius, also selected works of Plato, Aristotle, some of the Stoics, Epicurus, Cicero.
Full description:

Subject matter of the course:

Plato: an existential aspect of Plato's philosophy, Orphic legacy in the philosophy of Plato, Platonic mysticism, Plato's theory of the idea, Platonic idealism, Platonic inspirations in the Christian philosophy and spirituality.

Aristotle: logics, metaphysics, cosmology and psychology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy.

Hellenistic philosophy - civilization, cultural and moral transformation in Greece,

Hellenistic philosophical schools and their role in the cultural and moral transformation; common features of Hellenistic philosophy; philosophy as a moral and intellectual formation.

Other aspects of the spiritual culture of the Hellenistic era (renaissance of Greek mysteries, the influx of eastern mysteries).

Pyrrho of Elida and skepticism: Pyrrho's guiding features of skepticism; skepticism of the Platonic Academy.

Zeno of Kition and stoicism; ethical and practical dimension of the philosophy of stoicism, stoic philosophy of the Logos and natural law; stoic ethics and the most important stoic moral ideals.

Epicurus and his philosophical mission, Epicurean atomism as the prospect of seeing and solving all physical, ontological and moral problems.

Philosophical schools in the period of the Roman Empire: Cynicism, Stoicism, Pythagoreism, middle Platonism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, "Chaldean Oracles".

Neo-Platonism, the common features of the philosophy of this period.
Bibliography:

Literatura:

Lektury:

Diogenes Laertios, Żywoty i poglądy słynnych filozofów"

Platon, wybrane dialogi

Arystoteles, Etyka nikomachejska (wybrane rozdziały)

Epikur, List do Menojkeusa,

Seneka, Listy (wybrane)

Cyceron, O naturze bogów,

Cyceron, O najwyższym stopniu dobra i zła

Podręczniki (zalecane):

G. Reale, Historia filozofii starożytnej, Lublin 1993 – 2002.

K.Pawłowski, Skrypt do wykładów, w wersji elektronicznej - wykłady zamieszczane sukcesywnie na platformie Moodle UKSW

Literatura dodatkowa (wyłącznie dla zainteresowanych):

K. Albert, O platońskim pojęciu filozofii, Warszawa 1991

P. Hadot, Filozofia jako ćwiczenie duchowe, Warszawa1992.

P. Hadot, Czym jest filozofia starożytna, Warszawa 2000.

P. Hadot, Plotyn albo prostota spojrzenia, Kęty 2002.

W. Jaeger, Paidea, Warszaw 2001.

L. Joachimowicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1972.

H. Jonas, Religia gnozy, Kraków 1994.

A. Krokiewicz, Sceptycyzm grecki, Warszawa 1964.

A. Krokiewicz, Arystoteles, Pirron, Plotyn, Warszawa 1974.

A. Krokiewicz, Hedonizm Epikura, Warszawa 1961.

A. Krokiewicz, Zarys filozofii greckiej. Od Talesa do Platona, Warszawa 1971.

K. Leśniak, Arystoteles, Warszawa 1975.

K. Leśniak, Platon, Warszawa 1968.

G. Quispel, Gnoza, Warszawa 1988.

T. Szlezák, Czytanie Platona, Warszawa 1997;

T. Szlezak, O nowej interpretacji platońskich dialogów, Kęty 2005.
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