filozofija, prijevod

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Philosophy

1.Introduction

A. The study of philosophy was long synonymous with the wish to acquire comprehensive,

dependable, well-founded knowledge. In today's developed system of science basic

knowledge of philosophy and its past are still a necessary part not only in the humanities and

social sciences but in all developed scientific endeavors. All exemplary universities have

departments for philosophy, both for students of the subject and to give all their students the

opportunity to learn philosophy.

B. In some European countries philosophy is an important subject in assessing the ability of

candidates for higher learning as well as an important subject in secondary schools (France is

an example). Croatia also offers philosophy (sometimes logic and ethics as additional

subjects) in the curriculum of state financed secondary schools.

C. The program takes into account both the role of philosophy in European schools and the role

of philosophy at undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels at the research universities

of the USA and in the European universities continuing the Humboldt tradition.

D. Philosophy is taught at the University of Zagreb from the foundation of higher learning

2. General Section

2.1. Name of programme: Philosophy

2.2. Institution: Philosophical Faculty; Department for Philosophy

2.3. Duration of Undergraduate Studies: 4 years: Graduate Studies: 1 year; Doctoral Studies 3

years

2.4. Entry requirements: Admission to undergraduate level: the entrance examination of the

Philosophical faculty;

Admission to graduate level: philosophy major on undergraduate level or equivalent

knowledge expressed in ETCS.

2.5. Undergraduate studies in philosophy give knowledge and develop skills useful in all areas and

activities where a trained, logical, articulate and well- founded approach to problem solving is

needed: institutions, media, public service etc.

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2.6. A degree at graduate level qualifies either for teaching or for advanced work in philosophy; a

degree in philosophy generally testifies to versatile analytical skills.

2.7. Although divided into undergraduate and graduate stages, studying philosophy as a profession is a

continuous, five years project.

2.8. B.A.; M.A; M.A./M.E.

3.Programme Description

The Department of Philosophy proposes the study of philosophy as

A. Two majors , preparing for a combined M.A./M.E

B. One major

C. Two majors

Duration of undergraduate studies: 4 years

Duration of graduate studies : 1 one year

The programme proposes the following guidelines for studying philosophy.

The choice of elective courses is limited in the first semesters of A and C

Undergraduate studies A. & C

First semester

History of Philosophy as an Introduction to Philosophy 4 hours weekly, 5 ETCS

Greek Philosophy I 2 hours weekly, 3 ETCS

Contemporary Philosophical Terminology 4 hours weekly 5 ETCS

Foreign Language Course 2 hours weekly 2 ETCS

Second semester

History of Philosophy I 4 hours weekly, 5 ETCS

Introduction to Symbolic Logic 4 hours weekly, 5 ETCS

Greek Philosophy II 2 hours weekly, 3 ETCS

Foreign Language Course 2 hours weekly, 2 ETCS

1 elective course

The burden of the Foreign Language Course is divided between the two majors. The elective course

may add up to an additional credit or two. Elective courses on offer for the second semester: Academic

Writing (2 hours, 3 ETCS), On the Responsibility of Philosophy (2 hours, 3 ETCS).

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Foreign Language courses accepted: English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Latin, Greek,

Sanskrit.

In the remaining semesters of undergraduate studies the student, following the advice of his/her tutor

(change of tutor is possible two times during that period) take compulsory and elective courses, at a

minimum of 15 ETCS per semester.

Undergraduate studies B (One major)

The option of one major gives the students the possibility of more elective courses.

They are advised to take courses outside their philosophy major worth 60 ETCS.

First semester

Greek Philosophy I 2 hours weekly, 3 ETCS

Contemporary Philosophical Terminology 4 hours weekly, 5 ETCS

The History of Philosophy as an Introduction to Philosophy 4 hours weekly, 5 ETCS


Academic Writing 2 hours weekly, 3 ETCS

Elective courses 12 ETCS

Second semester

Greek Philosophy II 2 hours weekly, 3 ETCS

History of Philosophy I 4 hours weekly, 5 ETCS

Introduction into Symbolic Logic 4 hours weekly, 5 ETCS


Methodology of Scientific Research 2 hours weekly, 3 ETCS

Elective courses 12 ETCS

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Graduate Studies A

Two majors, combined M.A./M.E

The two graduate semesters are dedicated to general and specific teaching skills and educational

competence.

30 ETCS…. General competence and skills

The remaining credits are acquired inside the two majors cording to the following recommendations:

The final thesis should if possible combine the two majors.

The practice of teaching should be connected with the chosen topic.

Compulsory courses for a combined M.A/ M.E in philosophy offered by the Department: Philosophy

of Education, Methodology of Teaching Philosophy

B One major

There are no compulsory courses. Elective courses should be if possible connected with the

preparation of the thesis. The supervisor of the thesis replaces the tutor.

C. Two majors

A thesis in one major; a thesis or a final exam in the other subject: 2 x 15 ETCS

Elective courses……. 2 x 15 ETCS

3.1.

The Department organizes compulsory courses in the following subjects:

History of Philosophy I, II, III (4 hours each; 5+5+5 ETCS), Introduction into Symbolic Logic (4

hours, 5 ETCS), Philosophical Terminology (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Greek Philosophy I, II (2 hours each,

3+3 ETCS), Ontology (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Ethics (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Aesthetics (4 hours, 5 ETCS),

Epistemology (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Logic (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Social Philosophy (4 hours, 5 ETCS),

Political Philosophy (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Philosophical Anthropology (4 hours, 5 ETCS),). There are

also elective courses in these subjects and additional elective courses in the following subjects.

Metaphysics (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Philosophy of Mind (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Bioethics (4 hours, 5 ETCS),

Asian Philosophies (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Croatian Philosophical Tradition (4 hours, 5 ETCS),

Philosophy of Law (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Philosophy of Culture (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Philosophy of

History (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Anthropology and Hermeneutics (4 hours, 5 ETCS), Philosophy of Gender

(2 hours, 3 ETCS), Academic Writing in Philosophy (2 hours, 3 ETCS), Methodology of Scientific

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Research (2 hours, 3 ETCS), Philosophy of Science (4 hours, 5 ETCS), The Responsibility of

Philosophers (2 hours, 3 ETCS), Philosophy of Language (4 hours, 5 ETCS).

The Department proposes to offer courses in Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mathematics,

Philosophical Theology as soon as possible.

The Department organizes courses on an introductory level for students not aiming at a major in

philosophy:

Introduction into Philosophy (studium generale); Ethics, Aesthetics, Logic, Methodology of

Scientific Research.

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3.2. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Course Title: Greek Philosophy I (The Presocratics; Plato)

ETCS: 3

Language:Croatian

Duration: 1 semester

Status: compulsory

Merthod: seminar

Requirements:-

Exam: oral, paper

Description: Reading Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pitagora, Protagoras, Xenophan,

Parmenides, Zeno, Melis, Heraclitus, Empedocles,Anagagoras, Leucippus, Democritus, the Sophistes,

Socrates, the Cynics, Cyrenians, Megarean, Plato

Objective: Introduction to Greek philosophers

Compulsory reading

Diels, Predsokratovci

Platon, Odabrana djela

Additional reading

D. Barbarić, Grčka filozofija

B. Bošnjak, Grčka filozofija

W.F.Otto, Theophania

Kirk/Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers

H.G.Gadamer, Platos dialektische Ethik

And other, adviced by instructor

Instructor: Boško Zenić, senior lecturer

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Course Title: Greek Philosophy II (Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy, Rome)

ECTS:3

Language: Croatian

Duration:1 semester

Status: compulsory

Method: seminar

Exam: oral, paper

Description: Aristotle, Stoics,Epicurus, Plotinus, Neo-platonism

Objective: Introduction to Greek Philosophy

Compulsory reading:

Aristotel: Odabrana djela

Additional reading

D.Barbarić, Grčka filozofija

B.Bošnjak,Grčka filozofija

B.Despot, Logički fragmenti, Metodsko uz prijevod Metafizike

W.Jaeger, Aristoteles

A.H. Armstrong (ed.), The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy

And many other, adviced by instructor

Instructor: Boško Zenić, senior lecturer

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Course Title: Contemporary Philosophical Terminology

ECTS: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 4 hours, 1 term

Status: compulsory

Teaching and learning methods: seminar

Prerequisites: -

Method of assessment: oral examination, paper

Description: The course is an analysis of relevant contemporary philosophical texts that enable

students to master essential terminology, based on the way categories are used. The course deals with

the basic meaning of categories and their different interpretation - starting with the concept of

philosophy and dealing with ontological, epistemological, practico-philosophical (ethical, aesthetical,

anthropological, philosophico-political) concepts.

Objective: to introduce first year students to specific terminology of different philosophical epochs,

orientations and disciplines, a precondition to understanding the works of relevant philosophers as

well as a way of achieving precision in the student’s own work.

Compulsory reading

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Nasljeđe Europe

Hannah Arendt, Vita Activa

Thomas Nagel, Što sve to znači?

Alain Badiou, Manifest za filozofiju

Additional reading

Th.W.Adorno, Filozofska terminologija

Karl Jaspers, Duhovna situacija vremena

R.Bubner, Estetsko iskustvo

Atlas filozofije (Kunzmann,Burkhard, Wiedermann)

Filozofijski rječnik (V.Filipović)

Instructors: Prof.Žarko Puhovski, Prof.Nadežda Čačinovič, Prof.Gvozden Flego,

Ass.Prof.Gordana Škorić

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Subject: History of Philosophy

Course Title: The History of Philosophy as Introduction to Philosophy

ECTS: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 semester, 4 hours weekly

Status: compulsory, first semester

Method: lecture

Requirements: -

Exam: oral

Description: Philosophy and Being. History and Being. The history of philosophy as the philosophy of

philosophy. History as time (individuation). Time as measure of temporality and contemporality.

History in time: philosophers, their work, “schools”, circumstances, context, influences; the past,

present and future of philosophy.

Objective: Entering the realm of philosophy

Compulsory reading: The works of Plato and Aristotle

Instructor: Prof. Branko Despot

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Subject: History of Philosophy

Course Titles: History of Philosophy 1, History of Philosophy 2

ETCS: 5 ETCS, 5 ETCS

Language: Croatian

Duration: 2x1 semester, 4 hours weekly

Status: compulsory second semester, compulsory fourth semester

Method: lecture

Exam: oral

Description: The highest philosophy: the difference between pseudo-philosophy, non-philosophy and

philosophy. The possible and the impossible: logic and ontology. A critique of disciplines.

Transcending history and the world as a scientific-technical-cybernetic construction .

Objective: To become a philosopher

Compulsory reading I

Hegel, Fenomenologija duha

Hegel, Znanost logike

Compulsory reading 2

Hegel, Osnovne crte filozofije prava

Hegel, Enciklopedija filozofijskih znanosti

Instructor: Prof. Branko Despot

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Course title: Introduction to Symbolic Logic

ECTS credits: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Elective

Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 4 hours per week

Prerequisites: -

Exam: written/oral

Description: The subject and structure of logic. Classical notion of validity. Logic of propositions and

predicate logic. Propositional logic: theories of propositions and the principle of bivalence, truth

functions, validity of argument in the propositional logic. Functional bases and the language of

propositional calculus. Formal systems. Validity and consistency, completeness and independence in

axiomatic systems. Axiomatic approach, natural deduction and truth-trees for propositional logic.

Predicate logic: analysis of elementary propositions and the language of predicate logic. Axiomatic

systems of predicate logic, natural deduction, sequential calculus and truth trees for predicate logic.

Objectives:: The objective is introducing students to the elements of symbolic logic, especially to the

parts necessary for further study of logic. Beside getting acquainted with central notions of

contemporary logic, students should also master elementary techniques of symbolic logic.

Instructor: Prof. Goran Švob/Ass. Davor Lauc

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Course title: Methodology of Science

ECTS credits: 3

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Elective


Prerequisites: -

Exam: written/oral

Description: Methods of science; Selected parts of logic relevant for philosophy of science; Deductive

method; Structure of science: Scientific laws, Axiomatic systems and scientific theories; Non-

deductive inference: inductive methods, probability calculus; abduction and inference to best

explanation; The problem of induction; The demarcation problem; Development of science; Natural

sciences and social sciences and humanities.

Objectives: The objectives of the course is to provide students with an understanding of fundamental

concepts and problems of methodology of science from the perspective of the contemporary

philosophy of science. Students are encouraged to use course materials in critical examinations of

scientific fields they study.

Instructor: Ass. Davor Lauc

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Course Title: The Responsibility of Philosophers

ECTS :3

Language: Croatian


Status: compulsory/elective

Method: lecture +discussion

Requirement. –

Exam: paper

Description: Analysing the differences in views, concepts, decisions of philosophers from Plato to

Heidegger and the public role of philosophers and intellectuals in general. What is ideological bias?

Can we codify ethical standards?

Objective: enable students to understand types of responsibility in philosophy: “inner, individual and

as part of a professional body.

Compulsory reading

R.Bernstein, Odgovornost filozofa

J.Benda, Izdaja intelektualaca

Ethical codici of different professions

Additional reading

T.Honderich, A Kind of Life

B.Magee, Confessions of a Philosopher

Instructor: Prof.Žarko Puhovski

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Course: Academic Writing

Lecturer: Dr Pavel Gregorić

ECTS: 3

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 semester, 1 session a week

Status: Compulsory in semester 1 for students of the research programme,

elective in semesters 3-8 for students of the teaching programme

Format: Lectures + practical classes

Requirements: Attending (max. 3 absences)

Tutorials

Conditions: ––––

Final mark: 65% written exam

35% practical work

Description: Preparatory work

- finding literature (data bases, libraries, bookshops, Internet)

- reading literature (types and ways of reading)

- making notes

- drafting

Writing

- structure of academic written work (title, introduction, main

body, conclusion)

- argumentation (statement, proof, evidence, example,

qualification)

- style (clarity, brevity, relevance)

- features of academic work (quotations, references, bibliography)

- kinds of academic discourse

Finishing

- organising written work

- proofreading

- editing

Handbooks

- dictionaries

- encyclopaedias

- grammars

Objectives: To enable students to write essays and other written assignments

To introduce students to basics of academic research

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Literature: Zelenika, R., Metodologija i tehnologija izrade znanstvenog i

Stručnog rada, Rijeka, 2000., str. 180-194, 259-308,

428-469, 481-546.

Creme, P. and M. R. Lea, Writing at University: A Guide for Students

Buckingham and Philadelphia, 1997.

Dunleavy, P., Izrada doktorata: Kako planirati, skicirati, pisati i

dovršiti doktorsku disertaciju, Zagreb, 2005, str. 131-158.

Eco, Umberto, Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Milano, 1977.

(slovenski i njemački prijevod)

Zerubavel, E., The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing

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Subject: Philosophical Anthropology

ECTS: 5

Language: Croatian


Status: compulsory

Format: 4 h lecture per week

Entry requirements: inscription in the third semester

Examination: oral examination

Course description: Methodological problems. The relation to the other philosophical disciplines, to

empirical anthropology (biological, social, cultural etc.) and to the humanistic and social sciences.

Knowledge of man and (self)understanding of man. Problem of the essence and nature of man, non-

objectivistic view of philosophical anthropology and its practical sense. Concept of the man in the

history of philosophy. Kant’s role in the development of anthropological thinking. Constitution of the

philosophical anthropology in works of Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen and others. Body/soul relation and

the concepts of mind, subject, historicity, language, social being and culture. Philosophical

anthropology, contemporary philosophy and anthropological thinking.

Course objectives: The students should be acquainted with the methodological, theoretical and

substantial aspects of the man as a topic of investigation and reflection. The special position of a man

and special status of the anthropological knowledge and thinking and their relation to the moral

sciences, also the position of the philosophical anthropology in the philosophy as a whole should be

demonstrated. It is a contribution to the appropriation of the argumentative discussion and of the

dialog as a form of the philosophical thinking.

Examining literature:

Max Scheler: Ideja čovjeka i antropologija

Helmuth Plessner: Stupnjevi organskoga i čovjek or Condicio humana

Arnold Gehlen: Čovjek. Njegova priroda i njegov položaj u svijetu or Čovjek i institucije

Ernst Cassirer: Ogled o čovjeku

Eugen Fink: Temeljni fenomeni ljudskog postojanja

Marcus/Fischer: Antropologija kao kritika kulture

Additional literature

Instructors: Professor Hotimir Burger/Assistant Mladen Planinc

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Course Title: Political Philosophy

ECTS: 5 ETCS

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: compulsory (lectures), elective(seminars)

Teaching and learning methods: lectures, seminar

Prerequisites: third term

Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminars

Course description: the programme includes crucial categories of the discipline and their modifications

in theoretical reflection, but also in different ideologisation and political utilization. The course deals

with the concept of the community, the constitution and legitimation of the state, the character of

power and other communicational forms of political action, with the social contextualisation of the

political, with relations between the individual and the collectivity, different levels of political

organization (from local to world community) and even with the application of political forms in the

private sphere. New courses are offered every academic year.

Objective: to achieve mastery over the discipline

Compulsory reading

Aristotel, Politika,

Machiavelli, Vladar

Morus, Utopija

Hobbes, Leviathan

Locke, Dvije rasprave o vladi

Montesquieu, Duh zakona

Rousseau, Društveni ugovor

Kant, Politički spisi

Hegel, Osnovne crte filozofije prava

Mill , O slobodi, O predstavničkoj vladi

Marx, Filozofsko-politički spisi (izbor)

Enciklopedija političke misli

Additional reading

Arendt, Vita activa

Foucault, Nadziranje i kažnjavanje

Hinsley, Suverenitet

Hirschman, A.O., Strasti i interesi

Maritain, Čovjek i država

Ortega y Gasset, Pobuna masa

Rawls,O liberalizmu i pravednosti

Volkmann-Schluck, Politička filozofija Instructor: Prof.Žarko Puhovski

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Course title: Theory of knowledge (Epistemology)

ECTS credits: 5 (lecture course), 4 (seminar)

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term (4 hours per week)

Status: Compulsory (lectures), elective (seminar)

Teaching and learning methods: Lectures with discussion (4 hours per week; seminar 4 hours

per week)

Prerequisition: 5 term

Methods of assessment: Oral examination; one (at least) paper both in lecture course and

in seminar (if elected)

Description: The compulsory course consists of lectures (4 hours per week)

acccomapnied by discussion on primary literature to the course

whereby acquaintance with various aspects of traditional

(Platonist and/or Aristotelian), modern (post-Cartesian) and

contemporary epistemology should be provided both in

systematic and historical perspective. Special attention is being

paid to social and semiological aspects conserning both

acquisition and constitution of knowledge as well as

semiological models of knowledge theories which have largely

been neglected in the traditional approach to the subject. In the

con-current seminar (elective course, 4 hours per week,

preferably for advanced students) various special issues in

different and competing contemporary theories (both “analytic”

and “continental”) of knowledge, cognition, science and

rational discourse are being lerned and discussed. Aditionally,

in both course types the curriculum is oriented towards cross-

relationships between epistemology and other philosophical

disciplines such as philosophy of language, conceptions of

rationality and ideology, and discourse analysis.

Objectives: To provide a relatively complete, profound, and

interdisciplinary acquaintance with topics of cognition,

knowledge, and science in a variety of conceptions (both expert

and non-expert). A further important aim is to motivate and to

enable students to autonomous research, application, and

criticism in different domains of life.

Instructor: Prof. Borislav Mikuli ć

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TITLE OF THE SUBJECT: Social Philosophy

ECTS: 5 credit points

LANGUAGE: Croatian

DURATION: 2 semesters, 2 hours per week or, alternatively, 1 semester, 4 hours per week

STATUS: obligatory – lectures, and optional - seminar

FORM OF TEACHING: Lectures 2 semesters, 2 hours per week (Social Philosophy I and Social

Philosophy II) or, alternatively, 1 semester, 4 hours per week

CONDITIONS: The 3rd semester or later

EXAMS: oral; seminar: submitted paper

DESCRIPTION:

The thesis that human beings are interdependent is expressed by numerous philosophers, particularly

by modern ones. The social philosophy reflects upon preconditions and consequences of society, its

definitions and its difference toward the state, as it has been announced by Hobbes, elaborated by later

contractualists, first of all by English and French thinkers of the Enlightment, as well as in different

philosophical schools and orientations till nowadays.

Natural right tradition, contractualism, socio-philosophical consequences of human nature and

natural law, history as based on a collective human activity, freedom conceived as a social category,

scientific-technological civilization, state and society, language and society, psyche and society, are

some examples to be considered and analyzed during lectures and seminars.

GOALS: The goal of teaching social philosophy is to introduce students into presuppositions and

consequences of modern understanding of society and of a man as a social being.

This goal will be realized by lectures on selected topics of social philosophy and by relative

seminars (reading and analyzing selected texts, students have an obligation to submit papers).

The social philosophy is addressed first to students of philosophy but it can also be chosen as

an optional subject by students of other studying programs.

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY: The Reading List

Obligatory

A) The selection of writings by modern thinkers who reflect the concept of society,

particularly by J. Locke, D. Hume, B. de Spinoza, Ch.L.S. de Montesquieu, J.J. Rousseau, I. Kant,

J.G. Fichte, G.W.F. Hegel, L. Feuerbach, K. Marx, J. Bent ham, J.S. Mill, M. Weber;

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B) The selection of writings (minimally 3 books) by at least three 20th century thinkers who do

reflect the concept of society in a philosophical way – f.e. Th.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, M. Foucault,

H.G. Gadamer, J. Habermas, M. Horkheimer, A. Macintyre, J. Maritain, H. Marcuse, M. Merleau-

Ponty, L. Mumford, K. Popper, J. Rawls, R. Rorty, Ch. Taylor, Michaela Walzer.

Instructor: Prof. Gvozden Flego

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Course title: Ontology

ECTS credits: 5 (lectures), 4 (seminar)

Language: Croatian

Duration: 2 terms

Status: compulsory (lectures), elective (seminar)

Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 2 hours per week, seminar 2 hours per week

Prerequisites: 5. term

Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminar

Description: Fundamental concepts of ontology and metaphysics, genesis

and development of concepts; ontology in relation with other

philosophical disciplines (and the problematic nature of such

divisions : arguing in favor of overcoming the fragmentation of

philosophy and keeping up the connection with other forms of

human knowledge and thought); being, beings, essences,

substance, quality, quantity, identity and difference, truth.

Objectives: Advanced students of philosophy get an opportunity to

introduce order into their conceptual framework dealing with

fundamental question of philosophy as a whole.

Instructor: Prof. Lino Veljak

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Course title: Aesthetics

ECTS : 5 (lecture), 5 (seminar)

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Compulsory (lectures), elective(seminar)

Teaching and learning methods: lectures, seminar

Prerequisites: third semester

Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminars

Course description: The chair offers compulsory lectures, elective lectures, introductory lectures for

other departments and seminars. Lectures conclude in oral examinations , seminars require papers.

The topics for the compulsory lectures are chosen so as to facilitate the mastering of the subject: the

classical works of Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, aesthetic

reflexions of the 2oth century, the development of the autonomous systems of art and attempts of its

deconstruction , the differentation between concepts of art and the beautiful, the differences in the

status of art in different cultures etc. Elective lectures or targeted at students with a strong interest in

aesthetics. New courses are offered every academic year.

Objective: To present the history of the philosophical reflection on beauty and the arts, the

development of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline and a survey of contemporary theories of art

and the beautiful, including the aesthetic of audio-visual media, in order to enable the students to gain

conceptual mastery over the subject.

Compulsory reading

Platon, Država, Ion, Gozba, Fedar (2)

Aristotel, O pjesničkom umijeću

Kant, Kritika moći suđenja

Schelling, Filozofija umjetnosti ili Hegel, Estetika I

Heidegger, O biti umjetnosti ili W.Benjamin, Estetički ogledi

Croce, Estetika ili N.Hartmann, Estetika ili Th.W.Adorno, Estetička teorija

A.C.Danto, Preobražaj svakidašnjega

Additional reading

D.Hume, O mjerilu ukusa,

S.Kierkeggard, Ili-ili

F.Nietzsche, Rođenje tragedije

H.G.Gadamer, Istina i metoda

G.Lukacs, Duša i oblici

Oxford Reader in Aesthetics (ed.Feagin&Maynard)

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Theorien der Kunst (hrsg.D.Henrich, W.Iser)

D.Grlić, Estetika I-IV

N.Čačinovič, Estetika

Instructors: Prof. Nadežda Čačinovič/Ass.Prof.Gordana Škorić

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Subject: ETHICS Course: Ethics

ECTS credits: 5 (lectures); 4 (seminar) Language: Croatian Duration: 1 term Status: compulsory (lectures); elective (seminar) Teaching and

Learning methods: lectures (4 hours per week); seminar (4 hours per week) Prerequisites: 3rd term (for the students of philosophy) Exam: oral examination; paper in seminar Course description: The course is taught in cyclic lectures, in which the historical and thematic approaches are interwined in such a way that,

at places where key ethics categories are formed, the

historical overview is extended by thematic sets of problems.

The course is divided into 7 cycles: 1. Introduction (Types of

ethical reflection; Differentiation between ethics and morals;

Etymology of names; Period setting possibilities); 2. Ancient

ethics; 3. Early Christian and medieval ethics; 4. Modern

ethics up to Kant; 5. Kant's Copernican revolution in ethics;

6. German idealism – followers and critics; 7. Ethical

orientations/schools in newer and contemporary philosophy.

In the framework of the seminar, through the reading and

interpretation, as well as the presentation of the students'

works, there will be investigated some crucial ethical books

or the texts which are crucial for some important ethical

problems.

Course objectives: The aim of this course is to provide, through the lectures, a historical overview of the rising of theories in ethics, and to acqaint students with the framework of argumentation and dialogical antithesis, in which the fundamental ethical concepts and standpoints were articulated. The aim of the seminar is to develop the ability of the students to think and to discuss the ethical problems. Instructors: Prof. Ante Čović/Ass. Hrvoje Jurić

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Course title: Logic

ECTS credits: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Elective


Prerequisites: -

Exam: written/oral

Description: Origins of modern logic: traditional logic – Greek and mediaeval, logical algebra,

logicism, axiomatic method, set theory, metalogic. Formal theories: first- and second-order predicate

logic, equality and equivalence relations, Peano's arithmetic. Foundations of model theory:

completeness, compactness, categoricity. Calculability and decidability: algorithms, Turing's

machines, recursive functions, Church's and Goedel's theorems. The extensions of classical logic:

modal logics. Alternative approaches: many-valued logics, mathematical intuitionism, substructural

logics.

Objectives: Overview of main directions of development of traditional and modern logic. Providing

students with knowledge necessary to follow contemporary discussions in logic and related

philosophical disciplines, such as philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and philosophy

of science. In particular, students should acquire competence to teach elementary logic in secondary

schools.

Instructors: Professor Goran Švob/Ass. Davor Lauc

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Course title: Seminar in logic

ECTS credits: 4

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Elective


Prerequisites: -

Exam: written

Description: Selected topics in contemporary symbolic and philosophical logic such as: theories of

calculability, Goedel's incompleteness theorem, proof theory, type theory and higher-order logic,

Frege and modern logic, Wittgenstein and contemporary logic, logic and philosophy of language, non-

classical logics and modal logic.

Objectives: Providing a more detailed overview of selected topics in modern logic. Enabling students

to follow actively contemporary discussions in logic and related disciplines.

Course title: Philosophy of language

ECTS credits: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Elective


Prerequisites: -

Exam: written

Description: Beginnings of contemporary philosophy of language in Frege's works. Philosophy of

language and theories of meaning. Frege's theory of sense and reference. Russell's theory of

descriptions and the theory of logical types. Tarski's semantic theory of truth. Logical truth and

analyticity. Early and late Wittgenstein. Philosophy of ordinary language. Theories of linguistic acts.

Notion of rule following. Quine's doctrine of radical translation. Davidson's theory of meaning. Causal

theory of reference. Modalities and essentialism.

Objectives: Introducing students to basic problems and schools in the philosophy of language,

especially its modern forms in analytic tradition. Enabling students to follow actively contemporary

discussions in philosophy of language and related disciplines.

Instructors: Prof. Goran Švob/Asst. Davor Lauc

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Name of the course: Anthropology and Hermeneutics

ECTS: 5 points

Language: Croatian

Course duration: 1 semester

Compulsory/ Elective course: elective

Hours per week: 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of seminar classes (2 + 2)

Entry requirements: Course is open to students of Philosophy (after they have completed the required

Philosophical anthropology course) and to students of Anthropology beyond their first year of study.

Exam: Students are required to attend class meetings and to participate in seminar discussions. They

are also required to turn in essay assignments, or to present an assignment orally in class, and also to

take the final oral exam.

Course description: An introductory overview of the historical development of hermeneutics.

Phenomenology and hermeneutics as the methods of philosophical understanding of man. The

influence of Lebensphilosophie (philosophy of life) on hermeneutics and anthropology (Dilthey). The

main part of the course is the elaboration and criticism of Heidegger's, Plessner's and Gadamer's

philosophy, with special reference to the problems of philosophical anthropology and hermeneutics.

Heidegger's hermeneutics of Dasein: existentials and categories, authentic and inauthentic existence,

temporality and finitude of Dasein, Care, Death (being-unto-death) and the problem of the Self.

Heidegger's criticism of the idea of anthropology. Establishing hermeneutics as Plessner's

philosophical anthropology: man and stages of the organic, excentric positionality, laws of

anthropology. Historicality of understanding, language and hermeneutical experience (Gadamer).

Contemporary theories (Habermas, Apel, Ricoeur). Interpretation of the Other from the point of view

of philosophical and cultural anthropology. Limits of understanding and the problem of defining man.

Course objectives: Systematization of knowledge and advanced study on philosophy of man.

Introduce students to contemporary philosophical discussions on man (interdisciplinary approach).

Help students develop observation skills and critical approach to the problem. Encourage students to

formulate and express their thoughts through class discussions, dialogues and oral paper presentation.

Develop students' competency in critical thinking and encourage them to activly participate in

professional philosophic life (methodological and professional competency).

Exam literature (primary sources):

Dilthey, The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences

Heidegger, Being and Time

Plessner, The Stages of the Organic and Man

Gadamer, Truth and Method

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Secondary sources:

Schleiermacher, Hermeneutika

Dilthey, Die Entstehung der Hermeneutik

Heidegger, Kraj filozofije i zadaća mišljenja

Heidegger, Kant i problem metafizike

Heidegger, Unterwegs zur Sprache

Apel, Transformacija filozofije

Habermas, «Der Universalitätsanspruch der Hermeneutik», u: Kultur und Kritik

Habermas, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns

Ricoeur, Le conflit des interprétations

Ricoeur, Živa metafora

Gadamer, Hörmann, Eggers, Učenje i razumijevanje govora

Gadamer, Čitanka

Frank, Kazivo i nekazivo

Derrida, Marges de la philosophie

Lévinas, Smrt i vrijeme

Husserl, Kriza europskih znanosti i transcendentalna fenomenologija

Fink, Osnovni fenomeni ljudskog postojanja

Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologija percepcije

Marcus – Fischer, Antropologija kao kritika kulture

Grondin, Smisao za hermeneutiku

Hufnagel, Uvod u hermeneutiku

Burger, Subjekt i subjektivnost

Instructors: Professor Hotimir Burger / Assistant Mladen Planinc

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Course: Basic Texts of Philosophical Anthropology (seminars)

ECTS: 3

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1semester

Status: Elective course

Teaching methods: 2 h seminar per week

Perequisities: Inscription in third semester for students of philosophy or read aut off certain text for

other students.

Examination: paper or colloquy Course description: Kant’s philosophy and anthropology; Hegel’s philosophy of spirit and

anthropology; Marx’s anthropology and theory of history; life, spirit and universe by M.Scheler;

‘eccentric positionality’ and conditio humana by H.Plessner: symbolic form and anthropology by

E.Cassirer; the nature of man and the institutions by A.Gehlen; critical theory, phenomenology,

hermeneutics and anthropology and other themes. The elaboration of these themes is an intensified

interpretation of important works in the philosophical tradition and in philosophical anthropology,

always with a transparent relation to the basic concepts and problems of anthropology.

Course objectives: By means of analysis of the classical and contemporary works of philosophy and

philosophical anthropology and of the discussion of their methodological, terminological and

theoretical aspects, the source, the constitution and the basic concepts of the philosophical

anthropology and its relation to other philosophical disciplines (ethics, aesthetics, ontology, social

philosophy etc.) and to the empirical anthropology will be demonstrated. In such a way the student

acquires special knowledges and competence for philosophical analysis of the text and for an

argumentative and competent discussion as the condition of philosophical thinking.

Instructors: Professor Hotimir Burger and Assist. Mladen Planinc

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Course title: Philosophy of language

ECTS credits: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Elective


Prerequisites: -

Exam: written

Description: Beginnings of contemporary philosophy of language in Frege's works. Philosophy of

language and theories of meaning. Frege's theory of sense and reference. Russell's theory of

descriptions and the theory of logical types. Tarski's semantic theory of truth. Logical truth and

analyticity. Early and late Wittgenstein. Philosophy of ordinary language. Theories of linguistic acts.

Notion of rule following. Quine's doctrine of radical translation. Davidson's theory of meaning. Causal

theory of reference. Modalities and essentialism.

Objectives: Introducing students to basic problems and schools in the philosophy of language,

especially its modern forms in analytic tradition. Enabling students to follow actively contemporary

discussions in philosophy of language and related disciplines.

Instructor: Prof.Goran Švob/dr.D.Lauc

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Course title: Philosophy of History

ECTS credits: 4

Language: Croatian

Duration: 2 terms. Status: elective



Methods of assessment: oral examination

Description: The concept of history ( the difference between history and

historiography and other terminological distinctions). The

genealogy of philosophical reflections on history. Theory of

cycles and of progress. Minerva’s owl. Antithesis and antinomy

in history. The past- our time- modernity. Transcendence,

immanence, secularization. The relation between the

philosophy of history, philosophy as a whole and social/

humanistic sciences.

Objectives: Leading students towards autonomous research and

interdisciplinarian approach in the framework of the problems

of understanding history.


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Subject: Bioethics

Course: Bioethics

ECTS credits: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: elective

Teaching and

learning methods: lectures (2 hours per week); seminar (2 hours per week)

Prerequisites: /

Exam: oral examination (after the written paper)

Course description: The course is divided into 6 thematic cycles: 1. Beginnings of

bioethics; 2. Developmental phases of bioethics; 3.

Methodological specificum and nature of bioethics; 4.

Objectives of bioethics; 5. Bioethical institutionalization

and education; 6. Bioethics and Philosophy. The lectures

are combined with the seminars, in which some bioethical

discussions, as well as through the workshops which are

studies).

Course objectives: The aim of this course is to provide the inter-disciplinary

and pluri-perspective approach to moral questions which

raise from the scientific-technological development of

contemporary civilization and are connected with the

category of life in general. The specific aim of the course is to

develop the ability of students to think and to discuss the

raising bioethical problems, as well as to develop their

orientation regarding key-dilemmas of contemporary

humankind.

Instructors: Prof. Ante Čović/Ass. Hrvoje Jurić

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Course title: Philosophy of Science

ECTS credits: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term

Status: Elective


Prerequisites: -

Exam: written/oral

Description: Short historical introduction to philosophy of science: Aristotel, Galileo, F.Bacon,

Newton, Locke, Hume, J.S.Mill, Positivism, Post-positivism. Selected problems of the philosophy of

science: scientific explanations, causality and natural laws, the structure of scientific theories, the

demarcation problem, Development of science; Natural sciences and social sciences and humanities.

Objectives: The objectives of the course are to provide students with an understanding of fundamental

concepts and problems of contemporary philosophy of science.

Instructor: Ass. Davor Lauc

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Course title: Introduction to Metaphysics

ECTS credits: 5 (lectures), 4 (seminar)

Language: Croatian

Duration:: 2 terms

Status: compulsory (lectures), elective (seminar)

Teaching and learning methods: Lectures 2 hours per week, seminar 2 hours per week


Methods of assessment: oral examination, paper in seminar

Description: The fundamental notions of ontology and metaphysics, the

beginning and development of the basic conceptions, difference

between monism and dualism, the most important metaphysicians

in the history of philosophy, their actuality, the most important

interpretations, the question: Is the philosophy without

metaphysics possible?

Objectives: Advanced students of philosophy get an opportunity to introduce

order into their conceptual framework dealing with fundamental

question of the theoretical philosophy and especially of the

metaphysics.


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Course title: Indian Philosophy

ECTS: 4

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 term (4 hours per week)

Status: elective

Teaching and learning methods: lectures (2 hours per week) with seminar (2 hours per week)

Prerequsites: 3rd term.

Methods of assesment: Oral examination, one (at least) seminar paper

Description The course consists of lectures providing a selection of

theoretical and practical topics to get acquaintance with the

history of main philosophical themes issuing from the archaic

and classical schools of Indian philosophy (both orthodox and

nâstika) as well as from their modern versions. In the seminar

part of the course, the work is strongly oriented to the close

study of selected philosophical texts with an emphasis on

methodological problems of comparativism relating both to the

history of ideas and to contemporary theories.

Objectives: To give a relatively complete introduction into diverse topics of

Indian philosophy and methods of research as well as to enable

students, especially on the advanced level, to develope an inter-

disciplinary founded approach to non-western traditions of

thought.

Instructor: Prof. Borislav Mikuli ć

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Contemporary Aesthetics ( elective)

ECTS: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 4 hours weekly, one term

Status: Elective

Teaching and learning methods: lecture

Prerequisites: third term

Method of assessment: oral examination

Description: Elective course for students with a special interest in aesthetics. Contemporary theories

are analysed connecting philosophy with visual theory, theory of literature, media studies etc

Objective: Creating a dependable frame of reference of the contemporary theoretical landscape

concerning art and beauty.

Compulsory reading:

R.Bubner, Estetsko iskustvo

E.Grassi, Moć mašte

R.Barthes, Carstvo znakova

C.Jencks (ur.), Vizualna kultura


P.Virilio,Brzina oslobađanja

Additional reading

W.Welsch, Aesthetisches Denken

G.Dorfles, Kič

N.Goodman, Jezici umjetnosti

R.Lachmann, Phantasia, Memoria,Rhetorica

D.Pejović (ur.), Nova filozofija umjetnosti

Instructors: Prof.Nadežda Čačinovič/Ass.Prof.Gordana Škorić

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Course Title: Philosophy of Culture

ECTS: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 4 hours weekly, one term

Status: elective

Method: 2 hours lecture + 2 seminar

Requirement: third semester

Description: The course

is a survey of theories of culture aimed at enabling the student to master a frame of reference for

interdisciplinary work (visual studies, cultural studies). Special emphasis on the logic of binary

oppositions (culture/civilization, culture/nature, culture/society). Other topics are media in the sense of

transmitters of culture and cultural identity.

Objective: Acquiring competence in the analysis of culture.

Compulsory reading

Ernst Cassirer, Ogled o čovjeku

Georg Simmel, Kontrapunkti kulture

Horkheimer/Adorno, Dijalektika prosvjetiteljstva

Claude Levi-Strauss, Divlja misao

Edward Said, Orijentalizam

Terry Eagleton, Ideja kulture

Additional reading

P.Bourdieu, La distinction

Norbert Elias, Proces civilizacije

Michel de Certeau, Invencija svakodnevice

Ž.Puhovski,Kontekst kulture

Jean-Pierre Vernant, Lukava inteligencija u starih Grka


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Course Title: Philosophy of Gender

ETCS: 3


Status: elective

Method: l hour lecture+1 hour seminar

Exam: paper

Description: The course deals with the question of a gender bias in philosophy, past and present and

with the question of the unequal or unappreciated participation of women in the history of philosophy

and in human culture and civilization.

Objective: Knowledge about controversial issues.

Compulsory reading

Simone de Beauvoir, Drugi spol

Judith Butler,Nevolje s rodom

Janet Radcliffe Richards, The Sceptrical Feminist

Oxford Readings in Feminism, Feminism and History of Philosophy, ed.G.Lloyd

Additional reading

Carol Pateman, Spolni ugovor

Michele Le Doeuf, L’Imaginaire philosophique

Women Philosophers,ed.Mary Warnock

John Stuart Mill, Podređenost žena


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Course Title: Philosophy of Law

ETCS 5

Language: Croatian


Status: elective

Method: lecture

Exam: oral

Description: Courses in philosophy of law deal on the one hand with historical development of

philosophical views on law (from Roman antiquity on) and on the other hand with the philosophical

analysis of key concept of the theory and practice of law (private and public law, personhood,

property, contract, punishment, due process, rule of law, constitutional law, international law etc). The

concept of normativity is examined, as are types of arguments, language and logic.

Objective: students should acquire knowledge about different approaches to the philosophy of law

(from natural law to legal positivism) and the conceptual framework of human rights, collective rights,

institutional aspects of justice.

Compulsory reading:

Hayek,F.v.,Politički ideal vladavine prava

Matulović,M.,Ljudska prava

Neumann F.,Demokratska i autoritarna država

Tadić,Lj., Filozofija prava

Visković,N., Jezik prava

Additional reading

Beccaria C.,O zločinima i kaznama

Bačić A., Ustavi i ustavna literature

Bloch, E., Prirodno pravo i ljudsko dostojanstvo

Gaj, Institucije

Instructor: Prof. Žarko Puhovski

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Course Title: Croatian Philosophy

ECTS: 5

Language: Croatian

Duration: 1 semester, 4 hours

Status: elective

Method: lecture;seminar

Exam: oral; paper

Description: Exploring Croation philosophical heritage, with an emphasis on humanism and

renaissance. Contextualising philosophy and analysing the process of adapting and changing ideas

inside Europe. Questions of originality and innovation in philosophy.

Objective: Gaining knowledge about the continuity of philosophy and philosophical institutions in

Croatia.

Compulsory reading:

F.Marković, «Filosofijske struke...»,Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske baštine, 1-2,1975, str.255-279

K.Krstić, ibid..str.15

Lj.Schiffler, Ideja enciklopedizma i filozofijsko mišljenje, Zagreb 1989,str.73-140

I.Čehok, «Mala povijest hrvatske filozofije», u J.Hirschberger, Mala povijest filozofije

F.Zenko, Starija hrvatska filozofija; Novija hrvatska filozofija, Hrestomatija filozofije 9,10

Hrvatska filozofija, Hrvatski studiji

Additional reading : as advised by instructor

Instructor: Prof. Ljerka Schiffler

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Course: Philosophy of Mind ECTS: 5 Language: Croatian Duration: 1 semester, 2 sessions a week Status: Elective Format: Lectures + tutorials

Requirements: Attending (max. 3 absences)

Submission of 3 essays for tutorials

6 tutorials (before and after each essay)

Conditions: ––––

Final mark: 70% oral exam

30% essays

Description: Historical background of the contemporary philosophy of mind

(materialist theories, the Pythahorean theory of harmony,

Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke)

Theories of the mind and its relation to body

(dualism, idealism, behaviourism, eliminativism, physicalism,

functionalism, cognitivism, dual-aspect theory)

Consciousness (main features of, theories of)

Mental activities and kinds of mental content

Personal Identity

Other minds, non-human minds, artificial intelligence

Objectives: To introduce students to the main problems of the contemporary PM

To give a survey of the historical background of the contemporary PM

To practise philosophical argument

To train academic writing

Instructor: Ass. Pavel Gregorić

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Introduction to Philosophy (studium generale) ECTS: 3

Language: Croatian


Status: elective course

Teaching methods: lecture and seminar

Prerequisites: –

Examination: oral examination

Course description: Constitution and the concept of the philosophy in the classical Greek culture.

Relation of the philosophy to other forms of knowledge and human activities: to natural and moral

sciences, to theology and to the art. Fundamental disciplines of philosophy: ontology, gnoseology,

logic, ethics, esthetics and history of philosophy. Essential concepts of philosophy in the history of

philosophy: philosophy, science, theology, freedom, truth, theory/practice, time/space, subject/object,

nature, man, history, language etc. ‘End’ of the philosophy, philosophical thinking and contemporary

philosophical orientations. Position of philosophy in the contemporary culture and reality.

Course objectives: As a part of the studium generale this topics should acquaint the students studying

other subjects than philosophy with the beginnings of philosophy, its history and its position in the

culture of the present world; also with the particularity of the philosophical approach to knowledge

and reality. This should enable the students to reflect and develop a critical relation towards their own

study and the fundamental problems of today’s world. Especially important is to enable them for the

reflection of the relationship between philosophical thinking and moral and social studies.

Examining literature:

1. Original philosophical work

2. Introduction to philosophy (textbook of B.Despot, B.Bošnjak, E.Fink or Th.W.Adorno)

3. History of philosophy (textbook of W.Windelband, A.Bazala or B.Bošnjak)

Additional literature

Instructor: Professor Hotimir Burger

LITERATURE

Platon, Menon, Zagreb, 2001. [80a-86c, str. 37-55, i komentar F. Grgića, str. 143-167.]

Platon, Fedon, Zagreb, 1915; pretisak Zagreb, 1996. [63e-69e, 80c-84b]

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Aristotel, O duši, Zagreb, 1987. (Preporučaju se strani prijevodi tog spisa, npr. Smithov prijevod u

Barnes, J. (ur.), The Complete Works of Aristotle, sv. 1, str. 641-692.)

Descartes, R., Meditacije o prvoj filozofiji, Zagreb, 1993.

Locke, J., Ogled o ljudskom razumu, Beograd, 1962. [Knjiga II, Poglavlje 1; Knjiga II, Poglavlje 27]

Ryle, G., "Descartesov mit" iz The Concept of Mind, London, 1949.

Smart, J. J. C., "Osjeti i procesi u mozgu" na http://www.ffdi.hr/mind/44-2.html.

Churchland, P. S., "Redukcija i problem duha i tijela" na http://www.ffdi.hr/mind/2-1.html.

Churchland, P., "Eliminativni materijalizam i propozicijski stavovi" u Miščević, N. i S. Prijić (ur.),

Filozofija psihologije: zbornik tekstova, Rijeka, 1993, str. 45-63.

Putnam, H., "Priroda mentalnih stanja" u Miščević, N. i S. Prijić (ur.), Filozofija psihologije: zbornik

tekstova, Rijeka, 1993, str. 64-73.

Searle, J., "Problem duha i tijela" na http://www.ffdi.hr/mind/2-5.html.

Block, N., "Some Concepts of Consciousness" at

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Abridged%20BBS.htm

Rosenthal, D., "Dvije koncepcije svijesti" na http://boo.mi2.hr/~ognjen/tekst/rosenthal99.html

Nagel, T., "Kako je to biti šišmiš", Treći program hrvatskog radija 55/56 (1999), 227-233; dostupno

na http://boo.mi2.hr/~ognjen/tekst/3pro818.pdf; prijevod dostupan i na http://www.ffdi.hr/mind/2-

4.html

Jackson, F., "Epifenomenalna qualia" na http://www.ffdi.hr/mind/2-2.html

Sacks, O., Čovjek koji je ženu zamijenio šeširom, Zagreb, 1998. ["Žena bez tijela", str. 52-61; "Pitanje

identiteta", str. 107-113.]

Turing, A. M., "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind 59 (1950), 433-460; dostupno na

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Py104/turing.html

Searle, J. M., "Minds, brains, and programs", Behavioural and Brain Sciences 3 (1980), 417-457.

Dennett, D., "Intentional systems" at http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/dennett2.html

Dennett, D., Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness, [Ch. 1 "What Kinds of

Minds Are There?", p. 1-24]

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Subject: ETHICS – GENERAL SUBJECT Course: Ethics ECTS credits: 5 Language: Croatian Duration: 1 term Status: elective (for the students which are not studying philosophy) Teaching and

learning methods: lectures (2 hours per week); seminar (2 hours per week) Prerequisites: / Exam: oral or written examination (after the written paper) Course description: The course is taught mostly by the thematic approach and the lectures are combined with the reading and interpretation of some texts, as well as with the workshops, in which the students are focused on some ethical problems. Even though the historical overview of ethical theories is provided, focused are mostly the authors and texts, in which the ethics is co-related with other disciplines, for example pedagogics (moral education), psychology (psychology of moral) and sociology (sociology of moral).

Course objectives: The aim of this course is to provide the orientational Historical overview of the rising of theories in ethics, and to acquaint students with the framework of argumentation and dialogical antithesis, in which the fundamental ethical concepts and standpoints were articulated, especially through the inter-relation between ethics and other disciplines and problematic fields.

Instructors: Prof. Ante Čović/Ass. Hrvoje Jurić

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Subject: Aesthetics (general)

ECTS : 3, 5 (with consultations)

Language : Croatian

Duration: 1 term, 2 hours weekly

Status: compulsory

Teaching and learning methods: lecture

Prerequisites. fifth term

Method of assessment: oral examination

Description: the course offers an introduction into aesthetics in order to enable students to deal with

the philosophical dimension in the history of different approaches to the arts and the beautiful as well

as to help them deal with the contemporary situation in the arts.

Objective: to promote interdisciplinarity.

Compulsory reading

Platon, Država, Gozba, Fedar ,Ion (2)

Aristotel, O pjesničkom umijeću

Hegel, Estetika I (uvod)

W.Benjamin, Estetički ogledi


Additional reading

N.Goodman, Jezici umjetnosti

D.Grlić, Estetika I-IV,

D.Pejović(ur.) , Novija filozofija umjetnosti

N.Čačinovič, Estetika

U.Eco, Pojam ljepote

Instructor: Ass.Prof.Gordana Škorić

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Graduate Programme

1. Subject: Philosophy of Education

2. ECTS credits: 5

3. Language: Croatian

4. Duration: 1 term

5. Status: compulsory for the teacher’s programme

6. Course type: Lectures 4 hours per week

7. Prerequisites: completed undergraduate programme

8. Methods of assessment: oral examination

9. Course description: The course philosophically reflects upon education discussing the fundamental

aspects of the human aspiration to, through the means of learning, develop one’s both intellectual and

emotional dispositions, reconstruct experience, and culturally revive life. The following three aspects

of the Philosophy of Education are central to these reflections: a) the analytical aspect (discussions

regarding the concepts of education, learning and teaching, teachers’ authority, and the teaching

expectations); b) the critical aspect (the critique of ideologies, the advocacy of a reasonable value

pluralism, the knowledge and will factors of social and citizen competences); c) the prescriptive aspect

(the radical mental probing of life, the cultivation of humanity in universally respecting moral persons,

narrative imagination nurturing compassion and responsibility).

The course conceptually links the prominent conceptions of education within the framework of the

Western philosophical tradition (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, St. Augustine, St. Thomas

Aquinas, Renaissance philosophers, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Smith, Hume, Rousseau,

Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Mill, Dewey) with the contemporary issues and challenges, which are placed

before the Philosophy of Education by the uncertainty of the future, the fragmentariness of knowledge,

the global fate of the human kind, multiculturalism, the need to educate people for understanding and

peace, the constitution of humanity as a global community, etc.

10. The course objective: The purpose of the course is to make students aware and scrutinise the

philosophical presuppositions of education, which is not only an indispensable condition for both any

reflection upon teaching and any discussion on the goals of education, but is also a continuous

philosophical issue, which is, today, instituted into a distinct philosophical discipline.

List of primary texts compulsory for the examination:

1. Plato, (1975) Protagora, Sofist (Zagreb: Naprijed)

2. Aristotle, Nikomahova etika (Zagreb: Globus and SNL, 1988)

3. Aristotle, Politika (Zagreb: Globus and SNL, 1988)

4. Nietzsche, F., Schopenhauer kao odgajatelj (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2003)

5. Foucault, M., Znanje i moć (Zagreb: Globus, 1992)

6. Hufnagel, E., Filozofija pedagogike (Zagreb: Demetra, 2002)

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7. Morin, E., Odgoj za budućnost (Zagreb: Educa, 2002)

8. Canivez, P., Odgojiti građanina? (Zagreb: Durieux, 1999)

9. Legrand, L., Moralna izobrazba danas: Ima li to smisla? (Zagreb: Educa, 1995)

10. Kant, Schelling, Nietzsche, Ideja univerziteta (ed. Despot, B., Zagreb: Globus, 1991)

11. Vuk-Pavlović, P., Filozofija odgoja (Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, 1996)

List of recommended secondary texts:

1. Polić, M., (1993) K filozofiji odgoja, (Zagreb: Znamen)

2. Polić, M., Čovjek, odgoj, svijest (Zagreb: HFD, 1997)

3. Dewey, J., Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

(New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941)

4. Gutmann, A., Democratic Education (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)

5. Macedo, S., Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy

(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000)

6. Barrow, R., & Woods, R., An Introduction to Philosophy of Education (London: Routledge,

1997)

7. Nussbaum, M., Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defence of Reform in Liberal Education


8. Gutmann, A., “What’s the use of going to school? The problem of education in utilitarianism

and rights theories”, in: Sen, A., & Williams, B. (eds.), Utilitarianism and beyond

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

9. Rorty, O. A. (ed.), Philosophers on Education (London: Routledge, 2003)

10. Blake, Smeyers, Smith & Standish, The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education

(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003)

Instructor: Raul Raunić, lecturer

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Graduate Programme – common courses – philosophical modulus

1. Subject: Philosophy of Education

2. ECTS credits: 3

3. Language: Croatian

4. Duration: 1 term

5. Status: Elective course

6. Course type: Lectures 2 hours per week

7. Prerequisites: completed undergraduate programme

8. Methods of assessment: oral examination

9. Course description: The course philosophically reflects upon education discussing the fundamental

aspects of the human aspiration to, through the means of learning, develop one’s both intellectual and

emotional dispositions, reconstruct experience, and culturally revive life. The following three aspects

of the Philosophy of Education are central to these reflections: a) the analytical aspect (discussions

regarding the concepts of education, learning and teaching, teachers’ authority, and the teaching

expectations); b) the critical aspect (the critique of ideologies, the advocacy of a reasonable value

pluralism, the knowledge and will factors of social and citizen competences); c) the prescriptive aspect

(the radical mental probing of life, the cultivation of humanity in universally respecting moral persons,

narrative imagination nurturing compassion and responsibility).

The course conceptually links the prominent conceptions of education within the framework of the

Western philosophical tradition (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, St. Augustine, St. Thomas

Aquinas, Renaissance philosophers, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Smith, Hume, Rousseau,

Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Mill, Dewey) with the contemporary issues and challenges, which are placed

before the Philosophy of Education by the uncertainty of the future, the fragmentariness of knowledge,

the global fate of the human kind, multiculturalism, the need to educate people for understanding and

peace, the constitution of humanity as a global community, etc.

10. The course objective: The purpose of the course is to make students aware and scrutinise the

philosophical presuppositions of education, which is not only an indispensable condition for both any

reflection upon teaching and any discussion on the goals of education, but is also a continuous

philosophical issue, which is, today, instituted into a distinct philosophical discipline.

List of primary texts compulsory for the examination:

12. Foucault, M., Znanje i moć (Zagreb: Globus, 1992)

13. Nietzsche, F., Schopenhauer kao odgajatelj (Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2003)

14. Morin, E., Odgoj za budućnost (Zagreb: Educa, 2002)

15. Canivez, P., Odgojiti građanina? (Zagreb: Durieux, 1999)

16. Legrand, L., Moralna izobrazba danas: Ima li to smisla? (Zagreb: Educa, 1995)

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List of recommended secondary texts:

11. Platon, (1975) Protagora, Sofist, (Zagreb: Naprijed)

12. Aristotel, (1988) Nikomahova etika i Politika: (Zagreb: I SNL)

13. Kant, Schelling, Nietzsche,(1991) Ideja univerziteta (ed. Despot, B., Zagreb: Globus) )

14. Hufnagel, M. (2002) Filozofija pedagogike (Zagreb: Demetra)



16. Gutmann, A., “What’s the use of going to school? The problem of education in utilitarianism

and rights theories”, in: Sen, A., & Williams, B. (eds.), Utilitarianism and beyond

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

17. Vuk-Pavlović, P., Filozofija odgoja (Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, 1996)

18. Polić, M. (1993) K filozofiji odgoja (Zagreb: Znamen)

19. Barrow, R., & Woods, R., An Introduction to Philosophy of Education (London: Routledge,

1997)



21. Rorty, O. A. (ed.), Philosophers on Education (London: Routledge, 2003)

22. Blake, Smeyers, Smith & Standish, The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education

(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003)

Instructor: Raul Raunić, lecturer

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