| Center |
| Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences |
| Departament |
| Philosophy |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Lectures, directed reading and tutorials |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination - - |
| Bibliografia |
| Primary literature (sources) consists of texts selected, translated and annotated by the professor. Secondary literature is included in the References sections of the selected texts. |
| Continguts |
| Study of Near Eastern thought and its relationship with Western Philosophy. 1. EGYPTIAN THOUGHT. Cosmology. Religion and cosmogony. Anthropology. Wisdom literature. Mathematics. Astronomy. 2. MESOPOTAMIAN THOUGHT. Religion and cosmogony. Anthropology. Eschatology. Morals and law. Astronomy and astrology. 3. HEBREW THOUGHT. The religion of the Western Semites. The religion of Israel. Judaism until the destruction of the Second Temple: nationalistic and hellenistic tendencies. Anthropology. Eschatology. Angelology and demonology. Rabbinical Judaism and kabbalistic mysticism. 4. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT. The sources of early Christianity and New Testament criticism. The "historical Jesus". Judeo-Christians and universalistic Christianity. Christian Gnosis and orthodoxy. 5. ISLAMIC THOUGHT. Muhammad and the Qur an. The foundations of Islam. The creation. Morals and law. Eschatology. Main currents of Islam. |