2025
Philosophy and Literature
Name: Philosophy and Literature
Code: FIL14588M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This unit intends to understand and discuss the differences between philosophy and literature, considering in particular the role of writing in Plato, namely in Phaedrus and, in the contemporary period, existentialism, in its different configurations.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Students, as a result of the curricular unit, should:
1) Understand and problematize differences between philosophy and literature
2) Understand and problematize the role of writing in Platos Phaedrus
3) Define existentialism on its several configurations
4) Analyse and comment a novel of ideas
1) Understand and problematize differences between philosophy and literature
2) Understand and problematize the role of writing in Platos Phaedrus
3) Define existentialism on its several configurations
4) Analyse and comment a novel of ideas
Contents
1.Introduction
2. The traditional relationship between philosophy and literature: the Platos Phaedrus example.
3. From philosophy as rediscover of the existence to the novel of ideas.
3.1. Jean-Paul Sartre
3.2. Albert Camus
3.3. Vergílio Ferreira
2. The traditional relationship between philosophy and literature: the Platos Phaedrus example.
3. From philosophy as rediscover of the existence to the novel of ideas.
3.1. Jean-Paul Sartre
3.2. Albert Camus
3.3. Vergílio Ferreira
Teaching Methods
Methodologies:
Lectures, text analysis and discussion, debates.
Evaluation:
Continuous evaluation: assistance: 20%; participation and debate: 20%; final essay and discussion: 60%.
Exam: 100%
Lectures, text analysis and discussion, debates.
Evaluation:
Continuous evaluation: assistance: 20%; participation and debate: 20%; final essay and discussion: 60%.
Exam: 100%
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