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| PHIL0026-1 | Antiquity Philosophical Texts
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures, Classics, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures, Classics, 3rd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in Information and Communication, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures, German, Dutch and English, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in History of Art and Archeology, General, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in History, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in modern languages and literatures, general orientation, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in History of Art and Archeology, Musicology, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies, 3rd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in philosophy, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Bachelor in philosophy, 3rd year | | 4 |
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| Bachelor in philosophy, 3rd year | | 4 |
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| Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| One-year preliminary programme leading to the Master in Philosophy | | 4 |
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| Master in History, Research Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Alexandra Michalewski |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| this course is devoted to the reception of the Timaeus of Plato in Antiquity. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The aim of the course is to follow the differents interpretation of a seminal text of the ancient platonic cosmology. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| No knowledge of Ancient Greek is required. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| After a general introduction, every session will have the form of a seminar, in which we will read collectively a portion of the text. Every participant in his turn will be asked to prepare one section. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 1st term, Wednesday 3-5 pm, room A1/3/28b |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Following Plato's Timaeus ( 27c-37c) Aristotle (De Caelo I, 10), Cicero, de Natura Deorum II), Philo of Alexandria (De Mutatione Nominum 267), Plutarchus (Platonic Question VII), Atticus (fragments), Alcinoos (Didaskalikos, XIV) and Plotinus, treatise 45 (III, 7) of the Enneads.
Additional Readings:
- Baltes M., Die Weltenstehung des platonischen Timaios nach den antiken Interpreten, Leiden, Brill, 1976-1978.
- Brisson, L., Le Même et l'Autre dans la structure ontologique du Timée, Akademia Verlag, 1974.
-Dillon J., The Middle Platonists, A Study of Platonism 80 BC to AD 200, Londres, Duckworth, 1977.
- Goldschmidt V. le système stoïcien et l'idée de temps, Paris, Vrin, 1953.
- Moreau J., Plotin ou la gloire de la philosophie antique, Paris, Vrin, 1970.
- O'Meara D., Plotin, Plotin, une introduction aux Ennéades, traduction A. Callet-Molin, Paris, Cerf, 1992.
- Sedley D., Creationism and its Critic in Antiquity, Berkeley, 2007.
- Sorabji R., Time, Creation and the Continuum : Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Ithaca N. Y., Cornell Univesity Press, 1983.
- Zambon M., Porphyre et le moyen platonisme, Paris, Vrin, 2002. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Oral examination in January. |
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Alexandra.Michalewski@ulg.ac.be |
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