Ethics and Political Philosophy Seminar
Code: 100289 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500246 Philosophy | OT | 3 | 0 |
| 2500246 Philosophy | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jesús Hernández Reynes
- Email:
- Jesus.Hernandez@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Jesús Hernández Reynes
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course
Objectives and Contextualisation
In this 2021-2022 academic year, the Seminar on Ethics and Political Philosophy aims to study cynicism.
Competences
- Philosophy
- Analysing and summarising the main arguments of fundamental texts of philosophy in its various disciplines.
- Recognising and interpreting topics and problems of philosophy in its various disciplines.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Thinking in a critical and independent manner on the basis of the specific topics, debates and problems of philosophy, both historically and conceptually.
Learning Outcomes
- Accurately drawing up normative texts.
- Carrying out a planning for the development of a subject-related work.
- Correctly, accurately and clearly communicating the acquired philosophical knowledge in oral and written form.
- Demonstrating a personal stance over a problem or controversy of philosophical nature, or a work of philosophical research.
- Developing self-learning strategies.
- Discriminating the features that define the writer's place in the context of a problem and reorganising them in a consistent diagram.
- Distinguishing and outlining the fundamental content of a philosophical text.
- Recognising, with a critical eye, philosophical referents of the past and present and assessing its importance.
Content
Cynicism
The research topic of this seminar will be the cynical experiment. This experiment consists of living as human beings without living as citizens.
Themes:
Block 1:
1. The concept of cynicism and the difference between the ancient and the modern.
2. Cynicism in its Greek origins.
3. Sophistication and the question of the opposition phýsis / nómos.
4. Socrates and the choice for civility.
Block 2:
5. The role of Antisthenes in cynicism.
6. Minimum life versus opulent life.
7. Law and justice.
Block 3:
8. Active life.
9. Autarky and freedom.
10. The truth against science. The actor as an archetype.
Methodology
Classes consist of reading and discussing Markus Gabriel’s texts. Interventions by the teacher and the participating students are planned.
Class dynamics make it necessary to read the texts that will be treated later outside the classroom.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 15 | 0.6 | 5, 6, 7, 2, 8 |
| classes | 30 | 1.2 | 6, 8 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| tutorship | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 1, 5 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Readings and studies | 75 | 3 | 3, 1, 2 |
Assessment
The evaluation will be done on four activities: three partial exams distributed throughout the course, at the end of each corresponding block of the syllabus. The weighted value of each of them is 30%. The fourth activity is participatory. The interventions of each student will be qualified together. Its weighted value is 10%.
The evaluation of all the activities will be reviewed individually in the teacher’s office, on the date that will be announced in due course through the Virtual Campus.
On the date established by the Dean's Office, the exams will be retrieved through a final exam, with a weighted value of up to 90%, correlative to the value of the tests that must be retrieved (ie there will be a recovery for each of the midterm exams and all three, two or only one can be retaken). The participatory part cannot be recovered. To take the retake, you must have taken at least two midterm exams. The final grade is the weighted average of all the activities evaluated.
A student who does not take a minimum of assessment activities representing 2/3 of the relative weight is considered non-assessable.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st test | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 8 |
| 2nd test | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| 3rd test | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 8 |
| Class participation | 10% | 10.5 | 0.42 | 4, 5, 7, 2 |
Bibliography
Sources
Giannantoni, Gabriele. 1990. Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae, 4 vols. Nàpols: Bibliopolis. També disponible en línia: http:// socratics.daphnet.org/
Translations
* Martín García, José Antonio (ed.). 2008. Los filósofos cínicos y la literatura moral serioburlesca, 2 vols. Madrid: Akal.
Diògenes Laerci. 1998. Vides dels filòsofs. 2 vols. Barcelona: Laia.
Diógenes Laercio. 2013. Vidas de los filósofos ilustres. Madrid: Alianza.
Dión De Prusa. 1988. Discursos I-XI. Madrid: Gredos. En especial, discursos 4, 6-10.
Dobbin, Robert. 2012. The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian. Londres: Penguin Books.
Epicteto. 1993. Disertaciones por Arriano. Madrid: Gredos. En especial, llibre III, cap. 22.
Hard, Robin. 2012. Diogenes the Cynic. Sayings and Anecdotes with other Popular Moralists. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Juliano. 1981. Discursos VI-XII. Madrid: Gredos. En especial, discursos 7 i 9.
Luciano De Samósata. 2010. Diálogos cínicos. Madrid: Alianza.
Paquet, Léonce. 2000. Les Cyniques grecs. Fragments et témoignages. Ottawa: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa.
Studies
* Bracht Branham, Robert i Goulet-Cazé, Marie-Odile (coord.). 2020. Los cínicos: el movimiento cínico en la antigüedad y su legado. Barcelona: Ariel.
Casadesús, Francesc. 2008. Diógenes Laercio VI 20-21: “¿En qué consistió la falsificación de la moneda (to nomisma paracharattein) de Diógenes de Sinope?”, Δαιμων. Revista de Filosofía, suplemento 2, 297-309.
Desmond, William. 2008. Cynics. Berkeley i Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Desmond, William. 2006. The Greek Praise of Poverty. Origins of Ancient Cynicism. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Downing, Francis Gerald. 1992. Cynics and Christian Origins. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
Dudley, Donald R. 1998. A History of Cynicism from Diogenes to the 6th Century A.D., 2nd ed. with a foreword and bibliography by Miriam Griffin, Bristol: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. Accessible on-line l’edició de 1937 http://archive.org/details/historyofcynicis032872mbp
Foucault, Michel. 2004. Discurso y verdad en la Antigua Grecia. Buenos Aires: Paidós. L’edició anglesa original és consultable en línia: http://foucault.info/documents/parrhesia/
Foucault, Michel. 2010. El coraje de la verdad. El gobierno de sí y de los otros II. Curso en el College de France (1983-1984). Buenos Aires: FCE.
Freitas De Sousa, Juan Horacio de. 2012. “El cinismo: Un elogio a la desvergüenza”. Bajo palabra. Revista de Filosofía, II Época, Nº 7: 301-311.
Fuentes González, Pedro Pablo. 2002. “El atajo filosófico de los cínicos antiguos hacia la felicidad”, Cuadernos de Filología Clásica: Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, Vol. 12, 203-251.
Fuentes González, Pedro Pablo. 2003. “¿Necesitaban de un amigo los cínicos antiguos?”, Bitarte 31, p. 51-72.
García Gual, Carlos. 2014. La secta del perro. Vidas de filósofos cínicos de Diógenes Laercio. Madrid: Alianza.
Garrigasait, Raül. 2014. El gos cosmopolita i dos espècimens més. Barcelona: Edicions de 1984.
Goulet-Cazé, Marie-Odile. 2000. “Cinismo”. En Jacques Brunschwig, Geoffrey Lloyd. Diccionario Akal de El saber griego. Madrid: Akal, 650-659.
Goulet-Cazé, Marie-Odile. 2005. « Le cynisme ancien et la sexualité », en CLIO. Histoire, femmes et sociétés [En línia], 22 | 2005, publicat en línia el 1 de desembre de 2007. URL : http://clio.revues.org/1725 ; DOI: 10.4000/clio.1725
Goulet-Cazé, Marie-Odile i Goulet, R. 1993. Le cynisme ancien et ses prolongements, Actes du colloque international du C.N.R.S. (Paris, 22-25 juillet 1991). París : Presses Universitaires de France.
Infante, Eduardo. 2021. No me tapes el sol. Cómo ser un cínico de los Buenos. Barcelona: Ariel.
Laursen, John Christian. 2009. “Cynicism Then and Now”, Iris, I, p. 469-482.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. i Boas, George. 1935. Primitivism and related Ideas in Antiquity, vol.1, Baltimore: John Hopkins Press.
Navia, Luis E. 1996. Classical Cynicism: A Critical Study. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
Navia, Luis E. 2005. Diogenes the Cynic. Nova York: Humanity Books.
Niehues-Pröbsting, Heinrich. 1979. Der Kynismus des Diogenes und der Begriff des Zynismus. Munich: Wilhelm Fink.
Onfray, Michel. 2002. Cinismos. Retrato de los filósofos llamados perros. Buenos Aires: Paidós.
Roca Ferrer, Javier. 1974. Kynikòs Trópos. Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Helénicos vol. 8, núm. 1. Accessible on-line a http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/EstudiosHelenicos/issue/view/506
Shea, Louisa. 2010. The Cynic Enlightenment. Diogenes in the Salon. Baltimor: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sloterdijk, Peter. 2003. Crítica de la razón cínica. Madrid: Siruela.
Software
Not applicable.