Advanced

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

OBJETIVES:

•Student will gain have panoramic knowledge of the main concepts, problems and theoretic currents that determined the development of philosophy and science in the Ancient and Medieval Periods.

•Stimulate interest in the student for philosophical, scientific, and humanistic research through learning activities that will promote progressive participation in the various assignments and projects that will take place in class.

•Apply theoretic and pedagogic knowledge, as well as actualization and documentation techniques, to result in a competent and innovative performance by the student.

CONTENT:

I.
•Introduction
•Differentiate between general forms of comprehension and representation of the world in context of ancient cultures.

II.
•Origin of philosophy as rational comprehension of nature.
•Logos and Fisis
•Pre-Socratic Cosmology

III.
•Classic Greek philosophy
•Humanism and ethic-political ideology

IV.
•Platonic definition of Science
•Doxa & Episteme

V.
•Physical and metaphysical theory of Aristotle’s argument as paradigm of ancient Science

VI.
•Medieval thought
•Christianization of knowledge
•Revelation of truth and the truth about understanding
•Theological humanism
•Dialectics as paradigm of scientific knowledge

VII.
•Collateral development in natural science

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Aristóteles. Metafísica, en obras escogidas, ed. Aguilar, España, 1978

León Robin. El Pensamiento Griego (Los Orígenes del Espíritu Científico), ed. TEHA, México, 1962

W.K.C. Guthrie. Historia de la Filosofía Griega, 6 vol., ed. Gredos, Españá, 1993