Contemporary Philosophy II

Content

Objective

Explain and discuss the historical origins, dimensions and methodological questions concerning the fundamental problems of contemporary philosophy.

Course Content

We will study in the framework of phenomenology and existentialism the following fundamental problems and methods: Relationship between metaphysics and positive sciences, the idea of ??phenomenology, essence, consciousness, reality, experience , knowledge, truth, meaning, being, existence, understanding, concept, world, freedom, action, humanism, epokhe, phenomenological reduction, description, destruction of traditional ontology, the dialectic.

Course Learning Outcomes

Acquisition of detailed knowledge of the fundamental problems and methods of contemporary philosophy. Acquisition of the ability to develop an original reflection around philosophical issues.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Presentation, commentary, discussion.

References

Edmund Hussserl, L'idée de la phénoménologie, Paris, PUF, 1970.
Martin Heidegger, Etre et Temps, Paris, Authentica, 1985.
Martin Heidegger, "Lettre sur l'humanisme", in Questions III-IV, Paris, Gallimard, 1990.
Jean-Paul Sartre, L'existentialisme est un humanisme, Paris, Gallimard, 1996.
Emmanuel Levinas, "Humanisme et an-archie", in L'Humanisme de l'autre homme, Hérault, Fata Morgana, 1972.

Assessment System

ECTS