The course entails the following units:
– The aporetic character of a definition of Philosophy.
– The historicity and the history of Philosophy.
– The boundaries of philosophy: Philosophy and science. Philosophy and ideology. Philosophy and religion.
– The division of Philosophy. Τhe ontological paradigm of philosophizing.
– Τhe concepts of “being” and “becoming” in pro-Socratic philosophy.
– Sophistic. Plato’s ontology.
– Aristotle and the foundation of Philosophy as metaphysics.
– Fundamental issues in the philosophy of the Middle Ages.
– Philosophy as a cognitive theory.
– Rationalism, empiricism and their synthesis in Kantian philosophy.
– German Idealism.
– Philosophy as epistemology.
– Phenomenology.
– The linguistic-analytical paradigm of philosophizing.