Code: | FILO030 | Acronym: | ONT1 |
Active? | Yes |
E-learning page: | https://moodle.up.pt/ |
Responsible unit: | Department of Philosophy |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Philosophy |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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FILO | 39 | FILO - Study Plan | 3 | - | 6 | 4 |
1. To understand the main philosophical issues discussed in the field of ontology.
2. To understand the main philosophical arguments on the problem of being of the studied texts.
3. To understand the main concepts of Aristotle's ontology.
4. To understand the concept of existence in Avicenna, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus.
5. To distinguish the two ontological paradigms studied.
6. To understand the main philosophical issues that are at stake in the historical-philosophical debate about the possibility of metaphysics as a science.
Introduction
What is «ontology»?
Part I. A
Aristotle’s first philosophy.
1. Characteristics of this science.
2. Philosophy as ontology: the science of being as being.
2.1. Excursus: Ontology versus dialectic.
Philosophy as dialectic according to Plato. Being as the supreme gender and the nature of non-being.
2.2. Back to Aristotle: “Being is said in many ways” – Can there be a science of being?
Part I. B
The primacy of the substance in Aristotle's ontology.
What is substance? Analysis of the hypotheses substrate, essence and hilemorphic compound.
Part II
From ontology as a theory of substance to metaphysics as the science of transcendentals.
Part II. A
1.Aristotle and the onto-theological tension of the first philosophy.
2. The object of metaphysics according to Avicenna: the concept of existence.
Part II. B
The object of metaphysics and the nature of being in medieval scholasticism: Two divergent opinions– Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus.
Conclusion:
Ontology and metaphysics at the beginning of modernity.
Theoretical-practical lessons. Methodology based on reading and on commentary of texts, expounding of philosophical questions and critical discussion of the arguments.
All materials are available on the UC’s Moodle page, which also serves as a vehicle of permanent communication with the students, updating materials and implementing the teaching-learning process.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Participação presencial | 10,00 |
Teste | 90,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 110,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 52,00 |
Trabalho de investigação | 0,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |