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Social Philosophy

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Course ID: WS-SO-PS-1-FS
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: Social Philosophy
Name in Polish: Filozofia społeczna
Organizational unit: Institute Sociology
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.

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Language: Polish
Subject level:

elementary

Learning outcome code/codes:

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Short description:

students will learn about the foundations of human philosophy, culture, politics, state, ethics and epistemology that will help to understand the subject, theories and methods of sociology. The subject is also thought of as a preparation for the past and modern sociological theories.

Full description:

1. Edmund Husserl's phenomenology - 2h.

2. The philosophy of man and culture by Roman Ingarden - 2h.

3. Edith Stein on man and the meaning of life - 2h.

4. A separate idiom of Max Scheler's phenomenology - 2h.

5. Martin Heidegger on man, society and being - 2h.

6. Let's talk about the philosophy of dialogue: Ferdinand Ebner, Emmanuel Lévinas, Martin Buber, Ferdinand Ebner, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Józef Tischner - 2h.

7. Robert Spaemann and meanders of sense - 2h.

8. Paul Tillich and "the courage to be" - 2h.

9. Analytical philosophy, critical realism and other kinds of realism - 2h.

10. Two types of existentialism: Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus vs Gabriel Marcel, Lew Szestow, Miguel de Unamuno, Karl Jaspers - 4h.

11. Personalism: Gabriel Marcel, Jacques Maritain - 2h.

12. Chantal Delsol, "the man of late modernity - 2h.

13. Social philosophy and philosophical anthropology of Karol Wojtyła - 2h.

14. Philosophy of subjectivity - 2h.

Bibliography:

1. Frederic Copleston, History of Philosophy (excerpts related to the lecture);

2. Bertrand Russel, A History of Western Philosophy (excerpts related to the lecture);

3. Roger Scruton, A Short History of Modern Philosophy (excerpts related to the lecture);

Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:

The student knows the basics of philosophy, understands the main differences in positions in the field of human philosophy, politics, society, culture and values. He can refer them to the most important social and sociological issues.

The student knows the main ethical positions. He understands their importance for sociological theories.

The student knows the main epistemological orientations. He understands their importance for the methodology of social sciences.

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

A student has to choose between three forms of credit for the course

• oral exam, basic knowledge of material - dst; knowledge and full understanding of the material elements - db, full knowledge of the material, advanced understanding - very good, independent and creative understanding and full knowledge of the required material - very good plus

• translation of about 20 pages of text from English, French, German or Russian indicated by the lecturer, the area associated with the object (note, only for students who have left most one lecture per semester): Understanding, loyal, very good Polish language translation - very good, as above, but with a few shortcomings - db, accurate translation of text to understand the shortcomings - dst

• presentation on a given topic from the scope of the subject, a volume of about 50 pages (frames) beware! Only students who have left most one lecture per semester; Work done with full understanding, informative - very good, the work done with the understanding( no less than 75% of the material), honestly - db, work done with an understanding (of about 50 - 74% of the material), in principle, reliably - dst;

NOTE: electronic version no later than one month before the last semester lecture !!!

Note: Any objection to the entries in the USOS should be reported no later than a week after the exam date !!!

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