Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Key Texts in Philosophy
Course Number:
6EC
Course Description:
What is time? And what is the relevance of knowing our past and history? Philosophers from antiquity until the present day have reflected upon these questions. In this course, you will get an overview of the main developments in the history of philosophy and will read key texts from the history of philosophy, with a special focus upon the notion of time and the problem of understanding history. In the first week, we start with the perception of time in antiquity and early Christianity, and will read texts fragments of Plato and Aristotle (on (true) knowledge and belief, and on history), and a part of church father’s Augustine’s famous Confessions, in which he asks “what is time?”, and claims that we can only perceive or experience what is contained in a momentary present. In the second week, the focus is upon the notion of history in the modern period (17th-19th)
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
PHIL 100
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