- •Contents
- •Part I philosophy
- •Philosophy: the range of philosophical problems and the role and significance in culture.
- •1.1. Philosophy as Specific Type of Knowledge
- •1.2. The Subject Matter and the Nature of Philosophy
- •1.3. Philosophy as Theoretical Basis of Worldview
- •1.4. Philosophy as General Methodology
- •1.5. The Specific Place of Philosophy in Culture. Functions of Philosophy
- •Literature
- •Questions and Tasks for Self -Control
- •Philosophy of the middle ages
- •3.1. Historical and Social-Cultural Grounds for the Development of Mediaeval Philosophy, Its Characteristic Features and Problems of Research
- •3.2. Basic Philosophical Ideas in the Period of Patristics
- •3.3. Scholasticism as Basic Stream of Medieval Philosophy
- •3.4. Argumentation on the Universals. Nominalists and Realists
- •Questions and Tasks for Self -Control
- •Philosophy of the renaissance
- •4.1. Humanism – New Worldview Orientation of the Renaissance: Historical and Cultural Grounds
- •4.2. Revival of Platonic Tradition. Nicolas of Cusa
- •4.3. Natural Philosophy and New Science
- •4.4. Social Theories of the Renaissance
- •Questions and Tasks for Self -Control
- •Literature
- •Philosophy of the modern ages
- •5.2. Empiricism. English Philosophy of XVII Century
- •5.3. Rationalism. European Philosophy of XVII Century
- •5.4. Philosophy of Enlightenment
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- •Questions and Tasks for self-control
- •Literature
- •German classical philosophy
- •6.1. Historical Social and Cultural Grounds for the German Classical Philosophy Development
- •6.2. I. Kant and His Critical Philosophy
- •6.3. Idealism: Fichte and Schelling on Road to Hegel
- •6.5. L. Feuerbach as Necessary Stepping Stone for Non-Classic Philosophy of XIX-XX Centuries
- •Questions and Tasks for self-control
- •Unit 7 european philosophy of the XIX-XX centuries
- •7.1. General Characteristics of XIX-XX Centuries’ Philosophy. Historical Social and Cultural Grounds for Its Development
- •7.2. Romantic Movement as Grounds for
- •7.3. Currents of Thought in XIX Century and
- •7.4. Variety of Doctrines in XIX–XX Centuries
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Formation and development of philosophical thought in ukraine
- •8.1. Ukrainian Philosophical Culture and Its Specificity
- •8.2. Philosophical Thought in Period of Kyiv Rus
- •8.3. Ukrainian Philosophy of XV–XVIII Centuries
- •8.4. Ukrainian Philosophy in XIX –First Third of XX Centuries
- •8.5. Philosophical Thought in Ukraine in XX-XXI Centuries
- •Congenial work (after h. Skovoroda) is a creative potential of human beings and the possibility of self-fulfillment in this life.
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Outline theory of dialectics
- •9.1. Dialectics and Its Historical Forms
- •9.2. Principles and Laws of Dialectics
- •9.3. Laws of Dialectics
- •9.4. Categories of Dialectics
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control:
- •Literature:
- •Philosophical theory of being
- •10.1. “Being” as Philosophical Category. Unity and Structuredness of Being
- •10.2. Philosophical Category of “Matter”. Structure of Matter in Contemporary Science
- •10.3. Motion, Space and Time as Attributes of Matter. Social Space and Social Time as Forms of Human Being in Culture
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Jan Westerhoff. Ontological Categories: Their nature and Significance / Jan Westerhoff. — New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. − 261 p.
- •Philosophical conception of man
- •11.1. Development of Concept of Man in the History of Philosophy
- •11.2. Man as Biopsychosocial Being
- •11.3. Man and His Environment: from the Earth to Outer Space
- •11.4. Man. Personality. Society
- •11.5. Problem of Man’s Being Purport
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Philosophical problem of consciousness
- •12.1. Problem of Consciousness in Different Philosophical Teachings
- •12.2. Role of Practical Activity, Communication and Speech in Formation and Development of Consciousness
- •12.3. Structure of Consciousness. Consciousness and Unconsciousness
- •12.4. Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control:
- •Literature:
- •Theory of cognition
- •13.1. Cognition as Object of Philosophical Analysis
- •13.2. Methods and Forms of Scientific Cognition
- •13.3. Problem of Truth
- •13.4. Practice as the Basis and Purpose of Cognition
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control:
- •Literature
- •Social philosophy: subject matter and structure
- •14.1. Specific Character of Social Philosophy. Social Being and Social Consciousness
- •14.2. Philosophical Meaning of the Concept of Society. Society as System
- •14.3. Social System’s Structure and Its Basic Elements
- •14.4. Historical Periodization of Social Development
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control:
- •Literature
- •Social production as mode of man’s being in culture
- •15.1. The Concept of Culture in Philosophy. Culture as a Symbolic World of Human Existence
- •15.2. Material Culture, Its Structure
- •15.3. Spiritual Culture, Its Structure
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Political sphere of society`s life as philosophical problem
- •16.1. Politics and Political System of Society. Structure of Politics
- •16.2. State as Basic Political Institution
- •Literature
- •Plato. Republic / Plato : [transl. By g.M.A. Gruber]. — Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing, 1992. — 300 p.
- •Philosophy of history
- •17.1. History as Object of Philosophical Research: Historical Development of Circle of Problems. Meaning of History
- •17.2. Coincidence of Evolutional and Revolution Principles
- •In the Development of Mankind’s Civilization
- •17.3. Role and Significance of Masses of People and Personalities in History
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Strategy of future
- •18.1. Opposition “Modern-Postmodern” in Mankind’s Cultural and Civilized Development
- •18.2. Global Problems of Today as Negative Consequences of Modern Culture
- •18.3. Phenomenon of Globalization in Modern Civilized Development
- •Questions and Tasks for self-control
- •Literature
- •Part II logic
- •Logic as philosophical and scientific discipline
- •19.1. Subject of Logic. Sensual and Abstract Cognition
- •19.2. Logical Functions and Laws of Thinking
- •19.3. Functions of Logic
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Logical forms of thinking
- •20.1. Concept as Form of Abstract Thinking
- •Identity (Sameness)
- •20.2. Proposition and Its Structure
- •Inductive reasoning
- •Literature
- •Logical basis of argumentation
- •21.1. Structure of Argumentation
- •21.2. Logical Fallacies
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Part III religion studies
- •Religion: essence, structure and historical forms
- •22.1. Religion studies as a philosophical discipline.
- •22.2. Religion: Structure and Functions
- •22.3. Historical Types and Forms of Religion
- •Literature
- •Primitive religious beliefs and ethnic religions
- •23.1. Primitive Religions
- •23.2. Ethnical Religions
- •Literature
- •The world religions
- •24.1. Buddhism
- •24.2. Judeo-Christian tradition
- •24.3. Islam. Fundamental Tenets of Islam
- •3) Belief in the Prophets and Messengers
- •4) Belief in the Sacred Texts
- •5) Belief in Life after Death
- •6) Belief in the Divine Decree
- •1) The Declaration of Faith
- •2) The Prayer (Salah)
- •3) The Compulsory Charity (Zakah)
- •4) The Fast of Ramadan (Sawm)
- •5) The fifth Pillar is the Pilgrimage or Hajj to Mecca
- •The Branches of Islam
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Religion in modern world
- •25.1. Specific Character of Development of Religion in Modern Time: Modernism and Fundamentalism
- •25.2. New Religions: Essence, Origin and Classifications
- •25.3. Why Do People Join New Religious Movements?
- •25.4. Tolerance
- •25.5. Religious Toleration and History of Struggle for Freedom of Conscience in Europe
- •25.6. Human Rights
- •25.7. Legislative Guarantee of Freedom of Conscience
- •In Independent Ukraine
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •26.2. Morality and Morals
- •26.3. Origin of Morality
- •Questions and tasks for self-control
- •Literature
- •Notion and the structure of moral consciousness. Categories of ethics.
- •27.1. Moral Consciousness in the System of Morality. Structure of Moral Consciousness
- •27.2. Moral Norms and Principles. Motives and Value Orientation
- •27.3. Main Ethical Categories
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Moral world of man. Problems of applied ethics
- •28.1. Moral Necessity and Moral Freedom
- •28.2. Moral Choice and Responsibility
- •28.3. Love as Essential Component of Human Being
- •28.4. Problems of Applied Ethics
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Part V aesthetics
- •Aesthetics as philosophical discipline
- •29.1. Development of Concept of Aesthetics in History of Philosophy
- •29.2. Aesthetics and Other Disciplines
- •29.3. Basic Categories of Aesthetics
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •Art as social phenomenon
- •30.1. Origin of Concept of Art
- •30.2. Art as Social Phenomenon
- •30.3. Forms of Art
- •30.4. Specificity of Artistic Creation Process
- •30.5. Search of Art in XXI Century
- •Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
- •Literature
- •The list of literature Basic Literature
- •Jan Westerhoff. Ontological Categories: Their Nature and Significance / Jan Westerhoff. — New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. − 261 p.
- •Supplementary Literature
- •J.L. Acrill. Essays on Plato and Aristotle / j.L. Acrill. – New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. — 251 p.
- •John Burnet. Early Greek Philosophy / John Burnet. – [4 ed.] – London: a. & c. Black, 1952. — 375 p.
- •Roy Burrel. The Greeks / Roy Burrel. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989. — 243 p.
- •Primary sources
- •Plato. Collected dialogues / Plato : [transl. By Lane Cooper and others]. – Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1961. — 1743 p.
- •Plato. Republic / Plato : [transl. By g.M.A. Gruber]. — Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing, 1992. — 300 p.
Questions and Tasks for Self-Control
Analyze the content of the notion of aesthetics.
Give your account to philosophical principles of the aesthetics theory.
What is the subject of aesthetics?
Speak about the main categories of the aesthetics theory.
Can we regard ugliness separately from beauty?
Explain the meaning of the beauty as the basic category of aesthetics?
Who was the founder of aesthetics as the philosophical science?
What is the main difference between ancient Greek and medieval Christian aesthetics?
Why is the story of Tsar Oedipus called tragic?
What are the main types of comedy?
Literature
Basic:
Contemporary Philosophy of Art : Readings in Analytic Aesthetics / John W. Bender, H. Gene Blocker. — Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1993. — 607 p.
Theodor W. Adorno. Aesthetic Theory / Theodor W. Adorno. — New York : Continuum, 2004. — 472 p.
Supplementary:
Beardsley C. Monroe. Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present / Beardsley C. Monroe. — University : University of Alabama Press, 1975. — 414 p.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics / Michael Kelly. — New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. — 405 p.
Władysław Tatarkiewicz. A History of Six Ideas : an Essay in Aesthetics / by Władysław Tatarkiewicz : [transl. by Christopher Kasparek]. — Boston : Nijhoff, 1980. — 383 p.
Primary sources:
Benedetto Croce. Aesthetic as Science of Expression & General Linguistic / Benedetto Croce : [transl. by Douglas Ainslie]. — New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, 1995. — 503 p.
G. W. F. Hegel. Aesthetics : Lectures on Fine Art / G. W. F. Hegel : [transl. by T. M. Knox]. — Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1975. — 1289 p.
Unit 30
Art as social phenomenon
The aim of the theme is: to acquaint students with Art as a phenomenon of human spiritual culture, to analyze main stages of its development, to expose the aesthetical nature of art and its social functions; to master the forms of fine art, such as painting, sculpture, music, dance and others; to grasp some theoretical conceptions of analyzing art.
Key words of the theme are: fine art, creativity, aesthetical ideal, syncretism, design.
Beauty is an important part of our life. So is ugliness. It is no surprise then that philosophers since antiquity have been interested in our experiences of and judgments about beauty and ugliness. They have tried to understand the nature of these experiences and judgments, and they have also wanted to know whether these experiences and judgments were legitimate. In order to understand the beauty and ugliness we must focus on the notion of art(s). The arts are a vast subdivision of culture composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art," which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompass visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts - music, theatre, dance and film, among others.
A good definition of the arts is given by the Free Dictionary as "imaginative, creative, and nonscientific branches of knowledge considered collectively, esp. as studied academically." The singular term art is defined by the Irish Art Encyclopedia as follows: "Art is created when an artist creates a beautiful object, or produces a stimulating experience that is considered by his audience to have artistic merit." So, one could conclude that art is the process that leads to a product (the artwork or piece of art), which is then examined and analyzed by experts in the field of the arts or simply enjoyed by those who appreciate the arts.
The field of "art history" was developed in the West, and originally dealt exclusively with European art history, with the High Renaissance (and its Greek precedent) as the defining standard. Gradually, over the course of XX century, a wider vision of art history has developed. This expanded version includes societies from across the globe, and it usually attempts to analyze artifacts in terms of the cultural values in which they were created. Thus, art history is now seen to encompass all visual art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang Dynasty in China.