BA Programme in Philosophy (Double Major)

BA Programme in Philosophy (Double Major)

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

Completion of four years of secondary education and successfully passed State Secondary School Leaving Examination

3 years (6 semesters)

90

BA (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) in Philosophy

Knowledge and understanding

• Acquire basic knowledge of the history of philosophy, political philosophy, logic, gnoseology, ontology, aesthetics, hermeneutics, philosophy of nature, ethics and modern philosophy and the philosophy of art;
• Understand the basic philosophical terminology of early Greek philosophy, as well as the meaning of the Greek culture and letters to European and world culture;
• Learn the basic terminology of the philosophy of politics;
• Interpret basic logical concepts and relationships (e.g. consequence, allure, evidence, coherence, equivalence, model), as well as interpret basic properties of logical systems and procedures (gradualism, reliability, completeness, computability, decidability);
• Learn the basic concepts of medieval philosophy;
• Know and understand the history and significance of Croatian philosophy within the European and world context;
• Explain the most important teachings of gnoseology;
• Be able to clearly distinguish between own power of sensory knowledge and higher forms of cognition;
• Understand the basic postulations of rationalist metaphysics of the 17th and 18th centuries;
• Learn the new meaning of the term ontology;
• Define how the historicity of philosophy differs from the history and historiography of other disciplines and distinguish the classical philosophical reflection from the modern one;
• Explain the emergence of Aesthetics as a philosophical discipline and become familiar with the thinking of those philosophers who are deemed significant for the development of Aesthetics;
• Explain the original meaning of art;
• Gain insight into the teachings and directions of modern aesthetic learning;
• Learn the main problematical frameworks of understanding sociality through the history of philosophy;
• Become familiar with the basic concepts of modern philosophy;
• Become familiar with the basic concepts of history and hermeneutics;
• Define the philosophical discipline of Ethics throughout history and explain why Ethics should be considered a doctrine, not a science;
• Describe the historical and philosophical boundaries of ethical concepts such as virtue and vice.

Application of knowledge and understanding

• Explain the great significance of Plato, from a historical and problem perspective, and the possibility of application of his central concepts (idea, ousia, dialektika, dialogos, eros, polis, psyche, polis, ariste politeia) in contemporary times;
• Explain the main elements of Aristotle's philosophy in their internal cohesion, and explain the discipleship and diversity of Aristotle's philosophy in contrast to Plato;
• Read and write (in handwriting and typewriting) the Greek alphabet, and approach selected classical Greek texts with understanding;
• Understand and practically apply the knowledge of political philosophy and law;
• Know how to choose a logical approach to the study of basic philosophical questions, and know how to apply the logical methodology in the study of selected philosophical problems;
• Clearly distinguish between own power of sensory knowledge and higher forms of cognition;
• Handle the power of knowledge towards the realization of true happiness;
• Apply the knowledge of the tradition of ontology to the philosophical understanding of modernity;
• Explain the concept of beauty in the horizon of Aesthetics;
• Distinguish between subjective liking and true aesthetic liking;
• Be relieved of entering sense in the masterpieces of modern art;
• Explain the key aspects of the realization and the alienation of social being in scientific and technical civilization, from the cybernetic organization of relationship to socio-psychological interpretation of conditionality and be able to distinguish the social and the political in a historical perspective;
• Take a proper stand towards the impermanence and decay of natural phenomena;
• Apply an autonomous and independent philosophical reflection on the basis of the best heritage of philosophy of the 'Western philosophical circle’ and to propose the idea of ‘Philosophy Studies’ as an independent and self-regulating critical apparatus and a tool of activism in changing the existing unsustainable conditions of the world we are living in.

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