Ontology Themes - 2nd semester
Code
711031077
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
António de Castro Caeiro
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Basic knowledge contemporary philosophy tendencies
b) Information on the main polemics in contemporary philosophy
c) Basic knowledge of connections between the differents points of view in contemporary philosophy
d) Acquire basic information on the relations between contemporary philospohy and philosophy of previous ages
e) Basic information about the relations between contemporary philosophy and contemporariy culture and science
f) Acquire aptness to place concepts, points of view, methodological conceptions in the proper historical context
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
Ontology and fundamental mood: Heidegger´s point of view in \"Sein und Zeit\" and \"Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Welt - Endlichkeit - Einsamkeit\".
The relation of this problem with the Problemata XXX, I, of Pseudo-Aristotle.
The seminal text of the Introduction of Kierkegaard´s \"The Concept of Anxiety\". Mood and concept; mood and ontology. Melancholy as a principal fundamental mood.
Study of melancholy since the corpus hippocraticum to the post-modern understanding.
Bibliography
BURTON, R. (2000). Anatomy of Melancholy (1628). New York: New York Review Books.
DANDREY, P. (ed.) (2005). Anthologie de l´Humeur Noir. Paris: Le Promeneur (Gallimard).
DOLFI, A. (ed.), (1991), Malinconia, Malattia Malinconica e Letteratura Moderna. Roma: Bulzoni.
HEIDEGGER, M., (2001), Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
HEIDEGGER, M. (1983). Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Welt - Endlichkeit - Einsamkeit. Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann.
HERSANT, Y. (ed.), (2005), Mélancolies. Paris: Laffont.
KIERKEGAARD, (1980). The Concept of Anxiety. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
KLIBANSKY, R., SAXL, F., PANOFSKY, E. (1964). Saturn and Melancholy, London: Nelson.
PIGEAUD, J. (ed.). (2006). Aristote. L´Homme de Génie et la Mélancolie. Paris: Payot & Rivage.
PIGEAUD, J. (2008). Melancholia. Paris: Payot.
RADDEN, J. (ed.). (2000). The Nature of Melancholy. From Aristotle to Kristeva, Oxford: OUP.
Teaching method
Course of theoretical-practical character. The methodology used combines a theoretical examination of questions and the interpretation of texts. Analysis of and commenting on the texts in question.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: Proof of attendance (2/3 of rating) and a written work to be discussed with the lecturer (1/3)