Creativity Hermeneutics

Objectives

1 - To promote reading key works for study and reflection of the programatic topics.
2 – To gain a correct philosophical language.
3 – To develop the work of reflection and critical thinking.
4 – To understand the importance of creativity in the contemporary world and its philosophical and scientific implications

Program

The syllabus involves theories of the imagination and the theories of the text, plus the methodological guidelines of interpretation, and ends with a point about the hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur

Teaching Methodologies

Seminars based on interactive methods: hermeneutic and argumentative ones.

- Continuous evaluation
- Development of a critical work on a chosen theme.

Bibliography

AGOSTINHO, S.; ESPINOZA; HEGEL; DILTHEY; NIETZCHE, Textos de Hermenêutica, Rés Editora, Porto, Setembro, 1984.
CASTRO, Maria Gabriela, “Ricoeur y la explicitación ontológica del postulado de la referencia. El ejemplo de Sócrates, filósofo y poeta” in Agora – Papeles de Filosofia, vol 25, nº 2, Servizo de Publicacións da Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, 2009 pp. 75-86.
RICOEUR, Paul, Philosophie de la volonté II : 2. La symbolique du Mal, Aubier-Montaigne, 1960 (1988).
Le Conflit des Interprétations, Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1969.
Interpretation theory: discourse and the surplus of meening, Texas Christian Univ. Press, Texas, 1976.
A Metáfora Viva, Ed. Rés, Porto, 1983
Temps et Récit, I, Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1983.
Temps et Récit, II, Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1984.
Temps et Récit, III, Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1985.
Du texte à l’action, Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1986.
Da Metafísica à Moral, Instituto Piaget, Lisboa, 1998.