Specialization Seminar in Ontology and Philosophy of Nature
Objectives
Acquire a high-level ability to:
a) Understand the meaning and specificity of these two areas as major components of philosophical tradition andmajor fields of current research;
b) Understand the position of O. and of Ph.of N. as sought after sciences (zêtoumenai epistêmai);
c) Understand the articulation between these two areas and the other branches of Philosophy;
d) Understand the articulation between these two areas and the various branches of Science;
e) Understand the various approaches that have been taken in these two areas;
f) Understand what happens if O. and Ph.of N. cannot claim to be Science proper – the reasons for such failure, itsmeaning and its consequences;
g) Understand concepts and questions in these two areas;
h) Understand, compare and use these concepts and deal with these questions critically and independently;
i) Independently interpret and discuss doctrinal views and do high-level research in these two areas.
General characterization
Code
73203109
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Mário Jorge Pereira de Almeida Carvalho
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- Hegel, G. W. F. (1980). Phänomenologie des Geistes, ed. W. Bonsiepen et al., Gesammelte Werke, Rheinisch-Westfälische Akad. der Wiss., 9. Hamburg: Meiner
- - (1970) Phänomenologie des Geistes, Werke, 3. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp
- - (2011). Phänomenologie des Geistes, ed. H.-F.Wessels/H. Clairmont, Hamburg: Meiner
- - (1966). Phenomenology of Mind, tr. J. B. Baillie. London: Allen & Unwin
- - (1978). Phenomenology of Spirit, tr. A. Miller/J. N. Findlay. Oxford: O.U.P.
- - (2002). Phénoménologie de l'esprit, trad. G. Jarczyk/P.-J. Labarrière. Paris: Gallimard,
- - (1992). Phénoménologie de l'esprit, trad. J. Hyppolite. Paris: Aubier
- - (2006) Phénoménologie de l'esprit, tr. B. Bourgeois. Paris: Vrin
- - (2012) Phénoménologie de l'esprit, tr. J.-P.Lefebvre. Paris: Flammarion,
- -(1973). Fenomenologia dello spirito, tr. E. De Negri. Firenze: La Nuova Italia
- -(1997). Fenomenologia dello spirito, tr. V. Cicero. Milano: CDE
- -(2009). Fenomenología del Espíritu, tr. M. Jiménez Redondo. Valencia: Pre-Textos
Teaching method
Reading and interpretation of and commentary on the first three chapters of Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes.Analysis and discussion both of interpretive issues and of related philosophical questions and concepts.
The teaching methodology combines: a) a thorough interpretation of Hegel’s text (of its different components, of their connection both with each other and with the rest of Hegel’s Phänomenologie and of the corpus hegelianum), b) a theoretical analysis of philosophical problems, and c) a discussion of alternative views, objections, counter-examples, etc.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Class participation (participation in the discussion) count(25%), Lecturer and then discuss the paper with the latter.(75%)
Subject matter
Using Hegel as a Touchstone
This seminar concentrates on Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes, and in particular on the three chapters of hisanalysis of what he terms “Bewusstein”. These chapters pose a serious challenge to all major doctrinal andmethodological approaches in the Ontology and Philosophy of Nature field. Our purpose is to discuss this challenge.What kind of “threat” does Hegel’s analysis of “Bewusstsein” (i. e., both the various steps in it and their final result)pose to other methodological and doctrinal approaches? And how far are the various methodological and doctrinalapproaches in the field of Ontology/ Philosophy of Nature able to resist the undermining effect of Hegel’s dialectics?We have two main tasks: a) an in-depth analysis of Hegel’s text, b) a thorough discussion of whether other views provethemselves able to withstand the trial of the particular kind of concept instability (one might perhaps speak of a“concept entropy”) Hegel’s analysis is all about.