Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
History of Ideas
Teaching staff
jdquiceno@uic.es
Introduction
The course presents the study of man as a person with the aim of inviting students to reflect on their own condition and existential meaning, guided by the great authors in the history of thought. In this way, it is hoped that students will be able to understand the meaning of personal dignity and begin a path of integration into their own lives and their own science.
Pre-course requirements
There are not pre-cours requirements.
Objectives
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 01 - The ability to plan technical resources
- 03 - The ability to plan personal resources (personnel, materials, seasonal...)
- 04 - The ability of self assessment and professional self management
- 05 - The ability to learn autonomously
- 06 - The ability to act autonomously and responsibly
- 07 - The ability to work in a group
- 08 - The ability to organise time and workspace
- 09 - Lingustic ability in Catalan, Spanish and English
- 10 - The ability to develop an ethical attitude
- 11 - The ability to make judgments and well-argued critical assessments
- 12 - The ability to produce spoken and written texts
- 13 - Reading skills
- 14 - Ability to analyse
- 15 - The ability to synthesise
- 16 - The ability to detect newsworthy events
- 17 - The ability to confront difficulties and resolve problems
- 18 - The ability to work under pressure
- 19 - The ability to memorise
- 20 - The ability of concretion
- 21 - The ability of abstraction
- 28 - The ability to critically analyse the European, Spanish, and global film industry
- 29 - The ability to contextualise and critically analyse the products of the audiovisual industry
- 30 - The ability to contextualise and critically analyse current events
- 35 - The ability to understand and implement the system that governs the operation of a feature film
- 36 - The ability to understand and apply the audiovisual system structure
- 38 - Ability to understand and apply the legal dimension of an audiovisual product
- 39 - The ability to understand and apply the different agents of the audiovisual sector
- 40 - The ability to understand and apply the different departments of a film production
- 41 - The ability to understand and apply lighting and sound techniques of a film production
- 43 - The ability to understand and apply different television genres and formats
- 50 - The ability to understand and apply the different narrative elements of a project
- 56 - The ability to design and critique different forms of film and video
- 59 - Knowledge and mastery of classic culture
- 64 - Knowledge and mastery of bibliographic repertories
- 65 - Knowledge and mastery of the different resources of historical investigation
- 66 - Knowledge and mastery of the resources to encourage contextualized interest in history
Learning outcomes of the subject
1. Acquire knowledge on the essential characteristics of the person.
2. Know and understand what the great existential questions of the individual are.
3. Acquire knowledge on how one should behave and why.
4. Learne to make decisions for situations where there are ethical implications.
5. Be more sensitive to the fostering of respect, trust and friendliness among people.
6. Learne to evaluate the ethical consequences of our actions.
7. Acquire skills for oral and written communication.
8. Develope the ability to analyse and synthesise the information obtained in class and from the complementary material provided by the professor.
9. Improve reading comprehension skills.
10. Develop neatness habits in written documents and presentations.
Syllabus
1. Introduction to anthropology
2. Nature, method, and epistemological problems in anthropology
3. Who is the human person?
4. The Greco-Roman origin of the term “person” and its Christian development
5. Dignity and human rights.
6. Personal and narrative identity. Towards the configuration of one's own history.
7. Vocation, meaning, and profession. Fulfilling oneself as a person.
8. The problem of knowledge
9. Phenomenological analysis of freedom.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
- Fully classroom-based course without the use of electronic devices
- Master classes
- Group work and readings
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Continuous assessment (45%)
- 1 group assignment assessed in class (15%)
- 1 handwritten reading assignment on George Orwell's 1984 (15%)
- Attendance and participation (no more than 3 absences) (15%)
Final assessment (55%)
- Oral exam (to be held during the last week of class at a time proposed by the teacher for each student).
Bibliography and resources
- AMENGUAL, Gabriel, Antropología Filosófica, BAC, Madrid 2007.
- ARREGUI, Vicente y CHOZA, Jacinto. Filosofía del hombre. Una antropología de la intimidad. Rialp, Madrid 1993.
- ARISTÓTELES, El ánima.
- ARISTÓTELES, Metafísica.
- CASSIRER, Ernst, Antropología filosófica (Trad. Eugenio Ímaz), Fondo de Cultura Económica, México 2000.
- FRANKL, Victor, El hombre en búsqueda de sentido, Herder, Barcelona 1991.
- GARCÍA CUADRADO, José A. Antropología Filosófica. Una introducción a la Filosofía del Hombre 4ta ed. EUNSA, Pamplona 2008.
- GILSON Étienne, El Espíritu de la filosofía medieval, Rialp, Madrid 2009.
- GUARDINI, Romano, Mundo y Persona, Encuentro, Madrid 2000.
- LANDSBERG, Paul, Problemas de personalismo (trad. Carlos Díaz), Fundación Emmanuel Mounier, Madrid 2007.
- LUCAS LUCAS, Ramón, El hombre, Espíritu Encarnado, Sígueme, Salamanca 2008.
- SELLÉS, Juan Fernando, Antropología para inconformes, Rialp, Madrid 2011.
- PLATÓN, La República.
- QUICENO, Juan David, La identidad narrativa según Paul Ricoeur. Hacia una hermenéutica de la persona humana, Dykinson, Madrid 2021.
- TOMÁS DE AQUINO, Summa Theologiae.
- WOJTYLA, Karol, Persona y acción, Palabra, Madrid 2011.
- WOJTYLA, Karol, El hombre y su destino, Palabra, Madrid 2005.
- WOJTYLA, Karol, Mi visión del hombre, Palabra, Madrid 2010.