Course goals and objectives
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Republican State Establishment
Based on the Right of Economic Administration
Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Department of Philosophy
Approved by the Head of the Department of Philosophy
______________Garifolla Yesim
«__27__»__August___ 2016
Syllabus
(curriculum)
FIL 1202 PHILOSOPHY
intended for studentsof the specialties
B020200-International Relations, 5B030200-International Law
Astana – 2016
- Surname, first name of the course instructor; his/her academic degree; academic title; position; contacts; research school; research field.
Bozzhigitova Maryiash Makhambetzhanovna, PhD, Senior Lecturer.
Sciences interests: Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture
School of thought: specialty 09.00.01 - Social Philosophy, Philosophy and Political Science Institute MSE RK
Address: Faculty of the Social Sciences, Philosophy Department. Office phone: 70 95 00 – 35214; e-mail: phylmary@mail.ru
- Course name & main index:FIL 1202 - Philosophy
Number of credits:3
Course - 2
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- Course prerequisites and post requisites
Course prerequisites:Political science
Course post requisites:Sociology
- Course description
The course "Philosophy" is scientific and a subject matter, called to give a deep knowledge about philosophy as a specific sphere of cognition, philosophical systems and doctrines that will allow generating complete outlook of the future specialist.
Course goals and objectives
· Formation of logic and culture of thinking, and developing of learner’ research skills through organization of his self-study.
· Content-analysis of philosophical texts, comparative analysis of philosophical doctrines, comprehension of the essence of actual philosophical problems.
5.2 Learning outcomes. At the end of the course, students will:
· know the basic laws and principles of rational and critical thinking;
· understand the essence of the philosophical comprehension of the reality;
· be able to apply theoretical knowledge for an analysis and solution of concrete educational and practical tasks.
5.3 Course plan
| № of week | Topic name | Organizational forms of activities, & number of hours | Assignments for self-study | ||
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| Philosophy: the object and functions | Discussion. Myth as a type of worldview: genesis, essence, evolution. Reports. Philosophy and science: similarities and differences. The role of philosophy in the dialogue between religion and science. Philosophy and morality. Glossary. | ||||
| Philosophy of the Ancient East (Ancient India and Ancient China) | Reports. Philosophy of Upanishad. The Four Noble Truths of Buddha. Debate on the nature of human in the Chinese philosophical schools. The cult of Noble man in Confucianism. Aphoristic expressions. | ||||
| Ancient Philosophy (Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) | Reports. Zeno’s paradoxes and their role in the history of thought. Splendor and misery of sophistry. Plato’s Apology of Socrates. The Hellenistic ideal of sage. Pythagorean and Epicurean ethics. Essay. Destiny, fate and freedom in Stoicism. Crossword. | ||||
| Medieval philosophy (Arab-Muslim and Christian philosophy) | Working with texts. Confessions of St. Augustine. Al-Ghazali. The incoherence of the Philosophers. Ibn-Rushd. The incoherence of the incoherence. Al-Farabi. Principles of the opinions of the citizens of the virtuous city. | ||||
| Philosophy of the Renaissance | Report. The Renaissance image of man. Social utopias of T. More, T. Campanella. Working with the text. Erasmus of Rotterdam. The praise of folly. Discussion. Machiavellianism: pragmatic morality? | ||||
| Philosophy of Modern period and the age of Enlightenment | Working with texts. R. Descartes. Discourse on the method. J. Locke. An essay concerning human understanding. Essay. “Man is a thinking reed”. “If God does not exist, it should have been invented” | ||||
| German classical philosophy. Marxism | Discussion. “Real is rational and rational is real”. “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”. Report. The problem of alienation of human nature in Marxism. | ||||
| The non-classical Western philosophy | Working with the text. S. Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling. A. Schopenhauer. The world as will and representation. Essay. Vulgarization of Nietzsche’s philosophy: “Superman” through the eyes of the crowd. | ||||
| Schools and trends in 20th- century philosophy. Postmodernism | Essay. The problem of human’s freedom and responsibility. Discussion. “I rebel, therefore I exist”. “The situation of postmodern”: the pros and cons. The theory of language games. | ||||
| The problems of Russian and Kazakh philosophy | Reports. Philosophical character of Kazakh oral creativity. Akyn-zhyrau. Working with texts. Abay. Words of edification. Shakarim. Three truths. N.Berdyaev. The end of our time aka The new Middle ages. | ||||
| Ontology: the problem of unity of the world | Report. Being and nothing: “being and non-being are the same”. Essay. “If it was possible go back in time…”. Discussion. “Material space, social space, and individual space”. | ||||
| Dialectics as a doctrine of the universal connection | Discussion. The world is a self-developing integrity. Essay. “Randomness rules the world” or “what needs to happen it will happen”? | ||||
| Epistemology. Consciousness as a philosophical problem | Report. “Truth was the only daughter of Time, not of Authority”. Discussion. “I think, therefore I am”. Essay. Communication, understanding and mutual understanding. | ||||
| Human being and society as objects of philosophical analysis | Discussion. “To be or not?”, “To have or to be?”, “To be itself or not?” – that is the question. Texts. E. Fromm. Escape from freedom. H. Marcuse. One-dimensional man. | ||||
| Culture and civilization: the value foundations of being | Essay. “I was born in the era of moral decline of humanity” (A. Schweitzer). Discussion. “One land, one language, one culture: be careful, globalization!” | ||||
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