General information

• Study points: 4.00
• Language: English
• Category: Lectures
• Duration: 26.0 hours 
• Periodicity: Taught in the first semester
• POC: POC Philosophy (internationaal)

Taught by

Robiglio Andrea

Content

This course deals with some fundamental questions regarding Man and Human Agency: the notion of ‘Person’, the paradoxes of ‘Human Dignity’, the problems of Virtue, the use of ‘Value’ and Role Models as Vehicles of Moral Growth. The course focuses on the teaching and writings of MAX SCHELER (1874-1928), whose thought addressed the pivotal philosophical questions “Who are we?” and “What is a Human Being?” and took in account, sometimes with prophetic far-sightedness, the genesis and structure of contemporary ‘Global Society’. Against Schelers’s wide-ranging and original approach, the course also expects to briefly introduce and discuss a few recent positions in philosophical anthropology (viz. that of Ernst Tugendhat and Stephen Darwall). 

Course Material

The course material (course’s schedule, literature, list of ‘Classics’, etc.) will be available on the e-platform ‘Toledo’ the week before the beginning of the course (i.e. Sept. 27th, 2011) .

Course activities

Attending Lectures.
Students are also expected, in the course of the semester, to read one 'classic' philosophical text concerning philosophical anthropology and to engage critically with the literary and philosophical literature. Such a text may be chosen from a list provided by the instructor.

This course is also included in

W0EA5B Philosophical Anthropology  

General information

• Study points: 1.00
• Language: English
• Category: Lectures
• Periodicity: Taught in the first semester
• POC: POC Philosophy (internationaal)

Taught by

Robiglio Andrea

Evaluation description

Examination type:
    oral with written preparation
    written
When?: interim evaluations plus final examination during examination period

Explanation

The course will have a combined evaluation, both written and oral. 
The written evaluation consists in multiple-choice test (40%). The questions of the written test deal with matters of information and general knowledge (who? what?, in which writing? when?). This exam takes place at the very end of the semester (on Dec. 20th, 2011). 
The oral exam (60%) instead focuses on matter of arguments, and recapitulate all the materials of the course supplemented by the knowledge of one classic text in the history of philosophical anthropology, which students are expected to read in its entirety during the semester. The required ‘classic’ reading should be chosen from a list provided by the instructor and the evaluation of its understanding will be a relevant part of the oral exam, while it won’t enter in any way the evaluation via written test. Students should demonstrate their knowledge of this classic: content, form, argumentative progress, etc.. The oral exam will take place during the exam session (i.e. January 2012). More information will be available, together with the list of classics and a detailed schedule of the course, on ‘Toledo’ by next Sept. 23rd.