Ancient Philosophy
Objectives
Available soon
General characterization
Code
711031059
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
António Jorge de Castro Caeiro
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
2002: A Areté como Possibilidade Extrema do Humano. Fenomenologia da Práxis em Platão e Aristóteles. INCM. Lisboa.
2019: ARISTÓTELES. Ética a Nicómaco. Introdução, tradução e notas de António de Castro Caeiro. 6ª Edição. Quetzal. Lisboa. (1ª ed.: 2002)
2016: Caeiro, António de Castro. “Plato’s Gorgias Eschathological myth”. In Maria José Velasquez, Greek Philosophy and Mystery Cults, (pp. 51-68). Oxford, OUP.
2014: ARISTÓTELES. Fragmentos dos Diálogos e Obras Exortativas. Introdução, tradução e notas de António de Castro Caeiro. Lisboa, INCM.
Teaching method
(a) Most classes are expository, allowing and promoting the students intervention, in order to clarify the reading of relevant passages from the texts under analysis.(b) Some classes are taught in the so-called seminar regime, i.e., they consist of reading, commenting and text analysis (using pdf projected by computer).(c) Finally, some classes consist of discussing with students the subject matters already presented and the problems raised.
Evaluation method
Evaluation method - At the end of the semester, the final exame(70%), Class Attendence(10%), In the middle of the semester one exam(20%)
Subject matter
Arete as extreme possibility of humans
Philosophy for Plato and Aristotle is a program for transforming humans into beings configured by extreme possibilities (excellences, aretai). Both seek to understand the relationship of humans with the multiple realities that appear to us, the way they are constituted, seeking, therefore, to make sense of it and obtain transparency of the situation that is to be alive, to exist. The search for truth is not just to understand intellectually what is going on but to wake us up to ways of being and ways of existing that would otherwise remain dormant. We will try to see in this semester not only in theory what philosophy is but how Plato and Aristotle see the transformation of human beings in their practical situation as a way of life. We will be reading and commenting on Aristotle (Metaphysics I, II; Nicomachean Ethics I, VI; Dialogues) and Plato (Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Phaedo, Phaedo, Banquet)