Ancient Philosophy Themes
Code
711031071
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This course aims at
I) teaching students to read the Stoics in Greek and Latin.
II) translating, annotating, commenting the fragments of the Stoics, in its main lines of research allow us to not only to assess the weight of the stoics in the western philosophical tradition but also in its contemporary interest for the main lines of philosophical research and contemporary traditions, both analytical and continental.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
The human thing:- res mortalium/Hê physis anthrôpôn. From Tacitus and Thucydides.
Bibliography
H.S. Jones and J.E. Powell, Thucydidis historiae, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1:1942 (1st edn. rev.); 2:1942 (2nd edn. rev.) (repr. 1:1970; 2:1967).
Cornelii Taciti, Annalium Ab Excessu Diui Augusti Libri, ed. C. D. Fisher, 1901.
Teaching method
Evaluation method
Paper with oral discussion.