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Modern Age Philosophy I

Code: 175159
ECTS: 4.0
Lecturers in charge: doc. dr. sc. Marko Jakić
Lecturers: pred. dr. sc. Dalibor Lovrić - Seminar
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1. komponenta

Lecture typeTotal
Lectures 30
Seminar 15
* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)
Description:
Lecture:
1. Philosophy of renaissance and humanism, Aristotelianism, Platonism, and new cognition of nature.
2. Nicolaus Cusanus, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas More.
3. Mathias Flacius Illyricus, Franciscus Patricius, Michel Montaigne, Giordano Bruno.
4. Francis Bacon, Jakob Böhme, Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes.
5. Rene Descartes s foundation of new method and metaphysics of subject.
6. Occasionalism, Jansenism, Blaise Pascal.
7. Metaphysical monism of Baruch Spinoza.
8. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
9. Critical philosophy of Pierre Bayle and contra cartesianism of Giambattista Vico.
10. Enlightenment in England: Isaac Newton and John Locke.
11. Platonism, empiricism and philosophy of common sense: Shaftesbury, George Berkeley, Thomas Reid, David Hume, Adam Smith.
12. Beginning of the Enlightenment in France: Montesquieu and Voltaire.
13. Encyclopaedists Diderot and d Alambert, materialists Lammetrie, Holbach, Helvetius.
14. Jean Jacques Rousseau and resistance to the Enlightenment.
15. Enlightenment in Germany: Christian Thomasius, Christian Wolff, Frederick the Great, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn.
Seminars:
1. Introductory lecture; seminars
2. Rene Descartes, Meditations on the First Philosophy
3. Rene Descartes, Meditations on the First Philosophy
4. Rene Descartes, Meditations on the First Philosophy
5. Rene Descartes, Meditations on the First Philosophy
6. Benedict de Spinoza, The Ethics, the first part of About God, definitions and from the 1st to the 18th lesson
7. Benedict de Spinoza, The Ethics, the first part of About God, from the 19th to the 36th lesson
8. Benedict de Spinoza, The Ethics, Part Five On the Power of Reason or Human Freedom, Preface, Lesson 1 to 10
9. Benedict de Spinoza, The Ethics, Part Five On the Power of Reason or Human Freedom, Lesson 11 to 26
10. Benedict de Spinoza, The Ethics, Part Five On the Power of Reason or Human Freedom from 27th to 42nd Lesson
11. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Monadology, from 1st to 45th thesis
12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Monadology, from 46th to 90th thesis
13. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sections 1 to 3
14. . David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sections 4 and 5
15. . David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sections 6 and 7
Learning outcomes:
  1. Explain the importance of the history of philosophy in the study of philosophy;
  2. Explain the importance of philosophy from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment;
  3. Recognize philosophical problems and solutions in the original texts of philosophers who operated from the 15th to the 18th century;
  4. Compare individual views and arguments of philosophers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment;
  5. Critically discuss the main philosophical problems and schools for the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment;
  6. Interpret the leading theories and ideas of philosophers from the 15th to the 18th century;
  7. Hold a public lecture on philosophical problems and schools belonging to the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment;
  8. Arguably discuss the main philosophical problems and schools that belong to the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenmen
Literature:
  1. O učenom neznanju, , Kuzanski Nikola, Institut za filozofiju, 2007.
  2. Novi organon, , Bacon Francis, Zagreb : Naprijed, 1986.
  3. Metafizičke meditacije, , Desecartes Rene, Demetra, Zagreb, 1993.
  4. Etika, , Baruch de Spinoza, Demetra, Zagreb, 2000.
  5. Monadologija, , Leibniz, Kultura, Beograd, 1957.
  6. Društveni ugovor, , Rousseau, J.J., Feniks knjiga, Zagreb, 2012.
5. semester
Mandatory course - Regular studij - Philosophy
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