Academic Year/course:
2018/19
269 - Degree in Philosophy
25551 - Islamic and Jewish thought
Información del Plan Docente
Academic Year:
2018/19
Subject:
25551 - Islamic and Jewish thought
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
269 - Degree in Philosophy
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
587 - Degree in Philosophy: 3
587 - Degree in Philosophy: 2
269 - Degree in Philosophy: 3
269 - Degree in Philosophy: 4
587 - Degree in Philosophy: 4
269 - Degree in Philosophy: 2
Semester:
First semester
Subject Type:
Optional
Module:
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4.1. Methodological overview
See "Learning tasks " and "Syllabus".
More information will be provided on the first day of class.
4.2. Learning tasks
This is a 6 ECTS course organized as follows:
- Lectures.
- Practice sessions.
- Autonomous work and study.
- Assessment tasks.
4.3. Syllabus
This course will address the following topics:
- Topic 1. The Muslim and Jewish thought in relation to the Hellenic tradition, cultures in contact and illustrated alternatives.
- Topic 2. The meeting of Jewish monotheism with pagan philosophical tradition. Speculative theology (kalam) and pagan philosophy (falsafa) at takeoff of Muslim thought.
- Topic 3. The Muslim rationalism. Avicenna. Averroes. Omar Khayyam. Ibn Khaldun.
- Topic 4. Dissidences: Platonism, Sufism, Kabbalah, Messianism.
- Topic 5. The Arab science. Calculus, astronomy, geography, medicine, chemistry.
- Topic 6. The secularization of Jewish philosophy. Current perspectives.