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Philosophy of Education Renia Gasparatou - Undergraduate - (A-) Department of Educational Science and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras The course is an introduction to some of the main problems in philosophy of education. Students will be introduced to the problems of philosophy of education and their relevance to epistemology, politics and ethics. We will discuss the work of Plato, Aristotle, J.J. Rousseau, I. Kant, J. Dewey but also current debates in philosophy of education. Students are encouraged to follow the philosophical debate on the nature, the purpose and the limits of education and to discuss the arguments posed by philosophers.
Environmental Ethics and Education Demetrios Matthopoulos - Undergraduate - (A-) Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras Ethics. Applied Ethics. Bioethics, Environmental Ethics. Environmental Hermeneutics, Environmental Aesthetics. Essays to be analyzed, Collaboration with students.
Natural philosophy and natural science in ancient greek thought Stasinos Stavrianeas - Undergraduate - (A-) Philosophy, University of Patras A survey of the views of the ancient greek philosophers on nature. We will study the natural philosophy of the Presocratics, Plato's views on nature as well as Aristotle's foundation of natural science.
Aesthetics Aikaterini Kaleri - Undergraduate - (A+) Philosophy, University of Patras This lecture offers a historical survey upon the main theories of beauty and art from the ancient Greek philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) through neoplatonism (Plotinus), Renaissance, empirical theories, Hume's theory of taste and the rationalistic approach of A. Baumgarten's Aesthetics to Kant's "Critique of Judgement". It focuses on the function of mimetic and imaginative (re)presentation witch are discussed in relation to the original texts.
Introduction to Philosophy Renia Gasparatou - Undergraduate - (A-) Department of Educational Science and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras This course is a thematic introduction to philosophy. The aim of the course is twofold: Students will discuss some of the fundamental problems of philosophy in ethics, politics, epistemology and metaphysics. Students will develop reasoning and argumentation techniques.
Practical Philosophy of the 20th century Michael Paroussis - Undergraduate - (A+) Department of Philosophy., University of Patras this course concerns extensivelly to Practical Philosophy of the 20th century and analyses the principles which are critical for this course.
modern moral philosophy Michael Paroussis - Undergraduate - (A-) Department of Philosophy., University of Patras this course describes the principles and the concepts of modern moral philosophy by leading moral philosophers.
Philosophical matters processing: Knowledge and the real in Plato and in Aristotle Eleni Perdikouri - Undergraduate - (A-) Philosophy Department, University of Patras The central subject of the course is the question about "what constitutes knowledge" and its associated question "when I know." The course examines the object of knowledge and its presuppositions and is divided into two parts. In the first part, which is related to Plato, we study the paradox of Meno, the distinction between intellect-sensible and mind-sense in Phaedo and the matching of objects and the kinds of knowledge in the "divided line" of The Republic. In the second part, which concerns Aristotle, we study his theory about science in selected excerpts of Prior Analytics, and his theory of entelechy knowledge On the Soul. A final lecture focuses on the recapitulation of the similarities and differences between the two approaches.
Time and Eternity in Plotinus Eleni Perdikouri - Undergraduate - (A+) Philosophy Department, University of Patras We will thoroughly study the seventh treatise of the Third Plotinus Ennead (About eternity and time III 7 [45]). To understand Plotinus presentation and criticism on the previous theories about time, we will use the relevant extracts from Plato's Timaeus, from the books VI (Book Δ') and VIII (Book Θ') of Aristotle's Physics and from the Stoics fragments. To study the concept of eternity in Plotinus, we will use passages from the treatises in which Plotinus analyzes the structure of the Νους [Mind - Intellect] (V 9 [5] and V 5 [32])• and for studying the concept of time will use passages from the treatises in which Plotinus analyzes the structure of the psyche (V 3 [49] and I 1 [53]).
Plato and Aristotle on the Soul Stasinos Stavrianeas - Undergraduate - (A+) PHILOSOPHY, University of Patras This course studies the concept of the soul in Ancient greek philosophy, and especially Plato s and Aristotle's views concerning the nature of the soul and its relation to the body.