202123 SE Ethics: Reading Course: What Makes Me Happy?

summer semester 2020 | Last update: 05.11.2019 | Place course on memo list

Department:

Department of Christian Philosophy

Instructor:

assoz. Prof. Dr. Bruno Niederbacher, +43 512 507 85026

Course number:

202123

Title:

SE Ethics: Reading Course: What Makes Me Happy?

Type/hours:

SE 2

ECTS credits:

Period:

weekly

Mode of repetition:

annually

Language of instruction:

German

Learning Outcome:

The aim of this reading course is to enable students to read classical philosophical texts in a philosophical way.

Contents:

We will read and discuss Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and try to understand the structure of Aristotle’s version of eudaimonism. The following questions will be discussed: Is there a last aim of human action? What is happiness? What role does fortune play? What is the relationship between morality and happiness? What is virtue? What is the standard of moral goodness?

Methods:

Reading and discussion of texts.

Assessment:

Seminar paper.

Literature:

Aristoteles, Nikomachische Ethik. Übersetzt und herausgegeben von Ursula Wolf, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2006.

Prerequisites:

For Bachelor's Programme in Philosophy at the Catholic Theology Faculty (C 033 194): positive completion of compulsory modules 2 and 3.

OLAT:

https://lms.uibk.ac.at/url/RepositoryEntry/4661444932

Start:

02.03.2020

Course allocation

Faculty of Catholic Theology

Bachelor's Programme Philosophy at Faculties of Catholic Theology according to the Curriculum 2009 (180 ECTS-Credits, 6 semesters)

Compulsory Modules (152.5 ECTS-Credits)

Compulsory Module 19: Readings of Classical Texts concerning Practical Philosophy (10 ECTS-Credits, 5 h)

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Dates

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Date	Time	Location
Mon 2020-03-02	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-03-09	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-03-16	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-03-23	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-03-30	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-04-20	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-04-27	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-05-04	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-05-11	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-05-18	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-05-25	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-06-08	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-06-15	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free
Mon 2020-06-22	14.00 - 15.45	SR III (Theologie) SR III (Theologie)	Barrier-free