German Idealism

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

a) Expositions by the docent;

b) reading and analitic commentary of selected passages and texts;

c) presenttion of works by the students about selected texts;

d) discusion and argumentation practice;

e) lectures invited researchers.

Learning Outcomes

a) Acquisition of historical and systematic knowledge on key issues in German Classical Philosophy and its influence and presence in the latter thought, namely:

aa) Critique of Metaphysics;

bb) Philosophy as System;

cc) Philosophical foundations of knowledge;

dd) Philosophy of objective and subjective 'spirit';

ff) Theories of subjectivity and the status of rationality;

b) Competences to argumentative and critical intervention in the historial and systematic issues studied, and its significance to the present;

c) Abilities for research and writing texts on international level about the issues studied and its importance to contemporary discussions;

d) Skills for autonomous research in the field of German Idealism.  

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction. Critique of Metaphysics and its consequences

1.1. The critique to Kant

1.2. The problem of the principle of philosophy and of philosophy as system

1.3. The development of German Idealism between Fichte,Schelling and Hegel

2. The metodological problem, between Transcendental Philosohpy and Dialectics

3.1. Fichte's first Philosophy

3.2. The late Fichte

3.3. Fichte's Ethics, Philosophy of Right and Philosohpy of History

4. Schellings thought

4.1. The Philosophy of Identity

4.2. About Human Freedom

4.3. The Ages of the World and the Philosophy of Mythology

5.  Hegel's system

5.1. The Logic

5.2. Philosophy of Nature

5.3. The Philosophy of Right, Art, Religion and History

6. The end of idealism and its persistence in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries.

 

Head Lecturer(s)

Diogo Falcão Ferrer

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 50.0%
Synthesis work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Principal (são indicadas traduções dos textos selecionados em cada edição):

J.G. Fichte, Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, ed. Lauth - Gliwitzky et al., Stuttgart-Bad-Cannstatt, 1962-.

G.W.F. Hegel, Gesammelte Werke, Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der

Wissenschaften, ed. Nicolin - Schüler et al., Hamburg, 1968-.

G.W.F. Hegel, Werke, Moldenhauer & Michel, Frankfurt a. M., 1992.

F.W.J. Schelling, Schriften, Darmstadt, 1968.

Secundária:

Ameriks, The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism, Cambridge U.P., 2000.

Ferrer, O Sistema da Incompletude. A Doutrina da Ciência de Fichte de 1794 a 1804, Coimbra, 2014.

Ferrer, Lógica e Realidade em Hegel. Lisboa , 2006.

Ferrer - Utteich (eds.), A Filosofia Transcendental e a sua Crítica: Idealismo – Fenomenologia – Hermenêutica, Coimbra, 2015.

Hammer, German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives, London / New York, 2007.

Kervegan - Sandkühler, Manuel de l'idéalisme allemand, Paris, 2015.