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Faculty of Arts
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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UFAR 2019/2020
Melancholy and philosophy: images of a longue-durée association
21. 4. Michel de Montaigne. The study of melancholy
21. 4. Michel de Montaigne. The study of melancholy
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14. 4. Dürer’s engraving Melancholia I: reading seminar (analysis of the chapter on Dürer in Saturn and melancholy)
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28. 4. Seminar by our guest, Dr. Serena Masolini, on acedia (the mortal sin of sadness)
Select activity Montaigne, I, 20. That Philosophizing is learning how to die
Montaigne, I, 20. That Philosophizing is learning how to die
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Select activity Spinoza, Ethica, IV, 66-7. Philosophizing is meditating about life
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Select activity Matthew J. Kisner - Spinoza on Human Freedom Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life-Cambridge University Press (2011)
Matthew J. Kisner - Spinoza on Human Freedom Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life-Cambridge University Press (2011)
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Select activity Spinoza, Ethica, complete text
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14. 4. Dürer’s engraving Melancholia I: reading seminar (analysis of the chapter on Dürer in Saturn and melancholy)
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25. 2. Introduction: the original connection between genius and melancholy. Pseudo-Aristotle, Problem XXX.1
3. 3. The sources of Problem XXX.1: the medical theory of the humors and Democritean moods
10. 3. Hippocrates visits the mad Democritus: Letter to Damagetes no. 17
17. 3. Acedia and Sadness: Thomas Aquinas’ synthesis
24. 3. Aquinas continued
31. 3. Genius and philosophy. Ficino in the wake of ancient wisdom
7. 4. Ficino as a melancholic. Doing philosophy in first person
14. 4. Dürer’s engraving Melancholia I: reading seminar (analysis of the chapter on Dürer in Saturn and melancholy)
28. 4. Seminar by our guest, Dr. Serena Masolini, on acedia (the mortal sin of sadness)
5. 5. Descartes nad the melancholic 17th century
12. 5. Sigmund Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia” and the historic turn towards melancholy as nostalgia
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28. 4. Seminar by our guest, Dr. Serena Masolini, on acedia (the mortal sin of sadness)