Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| History of Ancient philosophy | ||
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Duration :
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| 45h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Marc-Antoine Gavray | ||
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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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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| Presentation of the main philosophical streams, from the Presocratics to Aristotle. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The course aims at giving the basic knowledge of both the particular concepts and way of thinking in ancient philosophy, and the influence it had on the history of philosophy until now. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| References are made to the main Greek notions, but no knowledge of Ancient Greek is required. | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| This course introduces the doctrines of the main authors of this era. Each week is devoted to an author, a school or a particular topic. Issues that will be dealt with:
1) Ionians 2) Pythagoreans 3) Eleatics 4) Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus 5) Sophists 6) Socrates 7) Plato (dialectic, Ideas, recollection, philosophy of nature, ethics, politics) 8) Aristotle (theôria, praxis, poiêsis) Every week, the first hour will give a comprehensive presentation of an author's thought. The next two hours will be dedicated to read texts and to deepen the topic of the first hour. Students will be invited to participate to this work. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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This is a first term course:
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Students will be provided with a collection of texts, documents, summaries and bibliography from the first lesson.
Complementary texts will be given according to the progress of the course. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Oral exam in January. | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Marc-Antoine Gavray
Department of Philosophy
Place du 20 Août, 7, bat. A1
4000 Liège
Tel.+32 (0)4 366 92 00 e-mail: Marc-Antoine.Gavray@ulg.ac.be |
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Items online :
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 | Syllabus Comprehensive notes including : I. Presocratic philosophy II. Socrates and Plato III. Aristotle |
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