Philosophy of Religion - 2nd semester
Objectives
a) To develop a critical understanding of the religious and philosophical traditions that play a more important role in the contemporary world.
b) To develop skills of critical thinking in order to evaluate arguments and views.
c) To develop the capacity to establish relationships between present events and philosophical and religious systems.
d) To develop the capacity to think critically from the perspective of different religions and cultures.
General characterization
Code
711031069
Credits
6
Responsible teacher
Mário Jorge Carvalho
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Bibliography
S. KIERKEGAARD,
Søren Kierkegaards skrifter, 9: Kjerlighedens Gjerninger, København, Gad, 2004
Works of Love (Kierkegaards Writings, XVI), ed. H. v. Hong & E. H. Hong, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998
Works of Love, ed. D. F. Swenson & L. M. Swenson, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1949
Der Liebe Tun: Etliche christliche Erwagungen in Form von Reden, Gutersloh, Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1992
Atti dell´amore, ed. C. Fabro ; aggiornamento editoriale di Giuseppe Girgenti, Milano, Bompiani Il pensiero occidentale, 2007
Gli atti dell´amore: alcune riflessioni cristiane in forma di discorsi, ed. U. Regina, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2009
Las obras del amor: meditaciones cristianas en forma de discursos, Salamanca, Sigueme, 2006
Les uvres de l´amour ; La dialectique de la communication éthique et éthico-religieuse: 1847, ed. P. H. Tisseau, Paris, Orante, 1980
Teaching method
This curricular unit has a theoretical-practical character.
The teaching methodology combines:
a) the theoretical analysis of philosophical problems and concepts
b) a thorough interpretation of the philosophical texts in question (with special emphasis both on their connection with the problems and concepts under discussion, and on interpretive issues, etc.)
and
c) the discussion of alternative views, objections, counterexamples, etc.
This curricular unit is designed to give participants the experience of working, as it were, in the laboratory of philosophical thought. Particular emphasis is also put on the discussion of questions, objections, related issues, etc. during office hours.
Evaluation method
Individual evaluation. Obligatory written exam (2/3). Each student will have to present a written work on an approved topic and discuss it with the lecturer (1/3).
Subject matter
Other people from a non-ethical, ethical and religious point of view
Our purpose is to examine the kaleidoscope of what Fichte termed Standpukte and Kierkegaard Stadier the set of phenomena these notions stand for, and in particular the difference between the non-ethical, the ethical and the religious as such.
These questions are to be discussed with a particular focus on other people: i. e. on how the others (our fellow human beings viz. our neighbours) take on a very different complexion, depending on whether they are seen in a non-ethical, an ethical or a religious light.
In order to discuss these issues we take particular account of Kierkegaards Kjerlighedens Gjerninger (Works of Love), but also try to put this work in perspective by outlining the net of connections a) within Kierkegaards oeuvre, b) with the tradition of Christian faith and thought, and c) with the philosophy (viz. the philosophy of religion) of other thinkers such as Jacobi, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel.