Philosophy of Religion
Code
711031069
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To developping a critical understanding of the religious and philosophical traditions which are central in the contemporary world.
b) To developping skills of critical thinking in order to evaluate arguments and views.
c) To developping the capacity to relate present events to philosophical and religious systems.
d) To developping the capacity to apply perspectives from different religious and cultural groups to critical analysis.
Prerequisites
It does not apply.
Subject matter
Books VI and XII of Aristotle´s Metaphysics deal with the problem of God and the \"science\" that gives access to him. The research project of the supreme being is parallel to that of an ontological research, i.e., of knowing the being qua being. Are all beings dependent on God or is God an object to be interrogate among others? We will try to see some decisive moments of God´s thought in his ontological interpretation and within Christian theology itself, as the radical possibility to lay the basis for the question about the meaning of being in general. Religious situations are existential situations. But there is a radical and absolute difference between being in the Grace of God´s revelation and being completely out of his control. We will read some of the epistles of Saint Paul, which are decisive for the constitution of a Christian theology. We will see in what sense some key concepts of the Aristotelian ethics and theology can be revised.
Bibliography
Heidegger, M., Fritsch, M., Gosetti-Ferencei, J. A., Heidegger, M., Heidegger, M., & Heidegger, M. (2010). The phenomenology of religious life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
A., & Jaeger, W. W. (1989). Aristotelis Metaphysica. Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano.
Nestle, E., Nestle, E., & Aland, K. (1984). Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine: textum Graecum. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.
Teaching method
The method adopted for the class combines exposition of the readings and commentaries on them along with discussion of student papers.
Evaluation method
As evaluation method is concerned Besides each student is required to write (60%) a paper to be presented and discussed in class (40%).