Ethics and Political Philosophy Seminar
Code: 100289 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500246 Philosophy | OT | 3 |
| 2500246 Philosophy | OT | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jesus Hernandez Reynes
- Email:
- jesus.hernandez@uab.cat
Teachers
- Jesus Hernandez Reynes
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course
Objectives and Contextualisation
Ancient Cynicism
In this 2024-2025 academic year, the Seminar on Ethics and Political Philosophy aims to study ancient 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
The object of research of this seminar will be the cynical experiment of the ancients. This experiment consists of living as human beings without living as citizens.
Topics:
- The concept of cynicism and the difference between ancient and modern.
- Cynicism in its Greek origins.
- Sophists and the question of the phýsis/nómos opposition.
- Socrates and the Choice of Civility.
- The role of Antisthenes in cynicism.
- Minimal health vs. opulent health.
- Law and justice.
- Active life.
- Autarky and freedom.
- Truth vs. science. The actor as an archetype.
Activities and Methodology
| 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 |
Classes consist of reading and discussing appropriate texts. Interventions by the teacher and the participating students are planned. In addition, group exhibition sessions will be held.
The class dynamics make it necessary to read the texts that will later be dealt with outside of classroom hours.
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.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1rst test | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
| 3ond test | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 8 |
| Class participation | 40% | 12 | 0.48 | 4, 5, 7, 2 |
This subject does not incorporate single assessment.
The evaluation will be based on four items: two partial exams at the end of each of the two parts of the course. The weighted value of each of them is 30%. A third assessable activity is a group exhibition. Its value will be 30% of the overall grade. Finally, attendance at class sessions will be evaluated, which will be worth 10% of the overall grade.
The evaluation of all activities will be reviewed individually in the professor'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, a retake of the exams will be made through a final exam, with a weighted value of up to 60%, correlative to the value of the tests to be retaken (i.e., there will be a retake for each of the partial exams and both or only one can be retaken). The attendance and exhibition part cannot be recovered. To sit for retake, you must have attended at least one midterm exam and have made the exposure. The final grade is the weighted average of all the activities evaluated.
A student who does not take a minimum of assessment activities that represent 2/3 of the relative weight is considered non-assessable.
If the student makes any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instructed. If there are several irregularities in the assessment of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.
Bibliography
Primary source
Giannantoni, Gabriele. 1990. Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae, 4 vols. Nàpols: Bibliopolis. També disponible en línia: http://socratics-documentation.ancientsource.daphnet.iliesi.cnr.it/en/edition.html
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 Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé (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 deFilosofía, 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 Richard Goulet (dir.). 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 George Boas. 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.
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
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Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (SEM) Seminars | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |