2000

This course is a continuation of Logic I. The core subject matter refers to the logics of predicates, some semantic and syntactic testing methods, such as the Tree of Truth and natural deduction. Similarly, the course dwells on one of the most important extension of the classical logic: the modal logic, given its complexity only propositional modal logic will be studied.

The course intends to introduce students to Kant´s philosophy through the overview of its thoughts and a selective and careful reading of the Critique of Pure Reason. It is worth recalling that Kant´s philosophy not only constitutes the place where the main philosophical problems suggested by the modern periods merge, but it also sets most of the path that must be followed by philosophy up to these days.

According to Hegel, philosophy is about the absolute knowledge, which is not the starting but the final point of the human experience. The Phenomenology of the spirit is concerned with the different shapes consciousness adopts on that path. The course will be focused on the first two stages of the evolution of knowledge, and it will become the venue to discuss the questions brought forward in the first reading of the text.

The course provides an approach to the philosophical and social dimension of Marx´s thought, based on some of his most relevant works, thus approaching to main notions, such as citizenship, emancipation, freedom, society criticism, alienation, nature, individual and society, ideology, history, materialism, idealism, work, value, goods, fetishism and its influence on contemporaneous reflection. Likewise, the course seeks to study contemporaneous readings of the Marxist economic, political, social and philosophical legacy, and how to establish relations and differences with other modern thought traditions, such as liberalism, communitarism, hermeneutics, Frankfurt School, neoliberalism, among others.

By studying some of Nietzsche’s texts, the aim is to introduce the student into one of the most important thoughts of the coeval world, him being the philosopher who stands up to the Western philosophical tradition at the level of the development of its own knowledge. With Nietzsche, a doubt comes into play into the way the West has posed and built its knowledge, apparently free of all suspicion. The course will mainly deal with the text Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The book itself represents something completely new. The skillful classical text interpreter, who knows well how much sense can be made of every detail in them, attempts by himself to write a classic. And, from the beginning, he fills it with the equivocality with which classics come to be throughout the centuries.