PHEB504 Просвещение
Анотация:
The philosophy of Enlightenment is a key source of both scientific and political development in contemporary world. The comprehensive understanding of the modernity would be impossible without basic knowledge on Enlightenment philosophy. The course introduces the students to the key philosophers, ideas and topics from XVII to XVIII centuries.
Преподавател(и):
доц. Ясен Захариев д-р
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
Successful graduates of the course students:
1) know:
• The historical features of Enlightenment.
• Key philosophy ideas from the Enlightenment period.
• The most important ideas that changed the modern world.
2) can:
• Link various problems of the contemporary culture to their source in the age of Reason.
• Recognise the origin of different political and moral theories.
Предварителни изисквания:
None
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
- The age of Enlightenment. History and context.
- Reason and Fate
- F. Bacon and the rise of science
- The problem of Method
- Descartes, cogito and the idea of Self
- Descartes’ legacy
- The idea of Encyclopedia
- The social contract theories
- Edmund Burke on French revolution
- John Locke and the idea of toleration
- David Hume on knowledge and causation
- German Enlightenment and Rationalism
- Kant and the answer of what Enlightenment is
- Kant’s categorical imperative
- Enlightenment, Europe and the contemporary world
Литература по темите:
Bacon, Francis. The New Organon
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the revolution in France
Descartes, René. Meditations on First Philosophy
Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan
Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume, David. Treatise of Human Nature
Kant, Immanuel. An answer to the question: What is Enlightenment?
La Rochefoucauld, François. Maxims
Locke, John. A Letter Concerning Toleration
Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Montesquieu. The Spirit of the Laws
Pascal, Blaise. Pensées
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract
Voltaire. Candide and Other Stories
Средства за оценяване:
Mid-semester exams:
1. Analysis;
2. Annotation;
End-semester exam:
1. Presentation;
2. Discussion.