Saint-Louis University - Bruxelles
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FILO1114 - Philosophy



Credits : 5

Lecturer :
Teaching assistant :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , first term, 60 hours of theory.

Timetable :
First term
Tuesday from 10:45 to 12:45 at 43 Botanique 6
Friday from 10:45 to 12:45 at 43 Botanique 6

Language of instruction :
French

Learning outcomes :
Introducing the students to the radicalism and abstraction of the philosophical questioning. Leading the students to a good conceptual command and to a satisfactory knowledge of the main stages in the history of philosophy.

Prerequisites :
None

Co-requisites :
None

Course contents :
A study of the thoughts of, among others, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Adorno, Castoriadis and Cavell, not through a strictly chronological presentation, but through a thematic approach: “Liberty and totality”.


Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Classical lecture, with the possibility to attend optional tutorials.

Assessment methods and criteria :
Oral examination


Recommended or required reading :
Compulsory reading:
PLATON, Le Banquet, trad. franç. de L. Brisson, Paris, Flammarion, 1999, GF n° 987..

Other information :
Excerpts from quoted works, detailed outline