Description (Characteristic) of discipline.

Philosophy is an attempt to come to a systematic understanding of the world through the use of reason and logic. Philosophy is humanitarian discipline, it learns students to develop their thinking and speech. The subject of philosophy is a sphere of spiritual human activity which involves reflection about aims, meaning, sense and essence of personality taken as subject of culture. The main peculiarity of this subject is study relationship between personality and society. We can also call this subject as art of thinking or art of true (correct) living.

1.1 GOALS OF DISCIPLINE:

To familiarize each student with a range of traditional problems and positions
To hone each student's skills in philosophical analysis through practiced instruction in critical thinking and writing;
To engender sophisticated philosophical reflection and discussion on the topics covered by the readings and other texts;
To assist students in developing their own philosophical perspectives on key issues in philosophy.

1.2 SPECIAL TASKS.

form the habit of objective valuation of the philosophical and scientific directions and schools
form abilities of revealing and investigating topical contemporary (philosophical) problems.

to develop abilities of logical thinking and conducting dialog, polemic, discussion.

1.3 POLITICS OF DISCIPLINE.

profound study of philosophy
encouragements can be given for participation in office lessons.
for participations in public debates, conferences will be given high mark
Midterm and final examinations must be implemented according tentative schedule.

2. Program of discipline.

2.1 Contents of disciplines

Week	Theme	Number of hours
Lecture	Practical hours	SSWT	SS(I)W
	Introduction to Philosophy. Philosophy as phenomenon of culture. Its subject and functions. Philosophy in cultural – historical context.
	The Ancient East Philosophy. Phenomenon of philosophy in Eastern philosophy.
	The Ancient West Philosophy. Philosophy within the culture of Antiquity.
	The Medieval Philosophy. Philosophy in Medieval culture. Arabic – Moslem philosophy within the context of Islam Medieval philosophy.
	Philosophy of Renaissance culture and Reformation.
	Western European philosophy of “New time”. Philosophy of Enlightenment period
	German philosophy XVIII – XIX centuries. Marxism philosophy within the context of Soviet culture.
	Phenomenon of philosophy in Kazakh culture. Russian philosophy XIX- XX centuries. .
	Philosophy of West in XIX century. The nineteenth century philosophy
	Contemporary philosophy. West philosophy within the context of XX – beginning of XXI centuries’ culture.
	Social philosophy. Anthropology. Philosophy of culture.
	Philosophy of science.
	Ontology. Philosophy of being. Theory of dialectics. Epistemology. Philosophy of politics and education.
	Problems of human in philosophy. (Self-consciousness as the basis of personal identity). Philosophy of history. Philosophy of religion
	Philosophy of global problems.
	All (hours)

№	THEMES.	Contents.
	Introduction to Philosophy. Philosophy as phenomenon of culture. Its subject and functions. Philosophy in cultural – historical context.	Philosophy as the form of human spiritual activity. The subject of philosophy (sphere of spiritual human activity which involves reflection about aims, meaning, sense and essence of personality taken as subject of culture). Mythology religion and philosophy: similarities and differences. The main function of philosophy ( preserving spiritual values and forming scientific worldview (philosophy). The fundamental question of philosophy (explanation of idealism and materialism).
	The Ancient Philosophy of East. Phenomenon of philosophy in Eastern philosophy.	Overview of the Eastern philosophic traditions. Ancient Indian philosophy: schooles, directions, philosophers. Ancient Chinese philosophy: schooles, directions, philosophers.Materialistic and idealictic schooles of aincent earsten philosophy. Hinduism. Confucianism. Taoism.Legalism.Buddhism Jainism. Taoism.
	The Ancient West Philosophy. Philosophy within the culture of Antiquity.	Ancient Greeks as beginning Western intellectual history. Philosophy of Romans. Cosmo centrism as a structure of Greek philosophy. Pre-Socratic Philosophers. Classical (or "early") Greek philosophy. Socrates, an Athenian philosopher, one of the most important icons of the Western philosophical tradition. Plato and Aristotle. The Neo-Platonists: Ammonius Saccas, Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Iamblichus. Schools of thought in the Hellenistic period.
	The Medieval Philosophy. Philosophy in Medieval culture. Arabic – Moslem philosophy within the context of Islam Medieval philosophy.	Arabian Philosophy. Sufism & Islamic philosophy. Sufism as a school of esoteric philosophy in Islam. The philosophy of Western Europe. The Neoplatonic (Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Saint Anselm). Augustine and other early neoplatonist figures. Schooles of nominalism and realism. Philosophy as servant of religion. Theo centrism.
	Philosophy of Renaissance period. Philosophy of Renaissance culture and Reformation.	Renaissance as ‘rebirth’ or ‘recovery’ of antiquity or Greco-Roman civilization.. Its origins. Period of Renaissance as a recovery from the Middle Ages. Great geographical discoveries. Major changes in art, music, literature and religion. The emergence and growth of humanism. A human being in this period as the link between the material world (through the body) and the spiritual world (through the soul). Humanism as a form of education and culture based on the study of classics. Human occupies central position in the great chain of being between the lowest form of physical matter (plants) and the purest spirit (God).
	Enlightenment philosophy. Western European philosophy of “New time”. Philosophy of Enlightenment period	Great political and social changes in Enlightenment period. Great political and social changes in Enlightenment period. The original sight at human being. Technological innovations and scientific discoveries. Enlightenment philosophers: Montesquieu, J. J. Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot. Religion and art through the Humanism.
	. German philosophy XVIII – XIX centuries. Marxism philosophy within the context of Soviet culture.	German classical philosophy. The most influential philosophers: Kant, Hegel and Marx. Vast contributions of German philosophers. Transcendental philosophy of I. Kant. Hegel’s dialectics. Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Fichte. The notion of individual will to power . The light of reality within the darkness of abstraction. ‘Critique of Pure Reason’ and ‘The Metaphysics of Ethics’ of I. Kant. The truth through the Hegelian philosophy.
	Kazakh Kazakh national philosophy. Phenomenon of philosophy in Kazakh culture. Russian philosophy XIX- XX centuries. .	The ancient Kazakh thinkers. Philosophy of nomads. Spiritual values of Kazakh people. I. Altynsarin. A. Kunanbaev. Sh. Valikhanov are representatives of Kazakh philosophy in XIX century. Islam as religion and philosophy. The ideology of “Alashorda” movement. Contemporary Kazakh social, political and philosophical doctrines.
	The nineteenth century philosophy. Philosophy of West in XIX century.	The specifics of the nineteenth century philosophy. Main philosophical doctrines and schools. Sören Kierkegaard, Karl Barth, Friedrich Nietzsche as representatives of nineteenth century philosophy. The "modernist" crisis, Saint-Simonian movement in France. The influence of Hegelian movements. Kierkegaard’s "line of death". Will to power of Nietzsche.
	Contemporary philosophy. West philosophy within the context of XX – beginning of XXI centuries’ culture.	Contemporary philosophical schools: existentialism, scientism, structuralism, pragmatism, positivism. The conception of "truth is subjectivity". Scientism as a synonym of positivism of all knowledge. Structuralism as the study of what structures (mathematical objects) are, and how the ontology of these structures should be understood. The nature and content of pragmatism.
	Social philosophy. Anthropology. Philosophy of culture.	Problems of society in philosophy. New social philosophy, as a feedback between man and the world. The notion of anthropocentrism. The idea of activities and man as a social being. The goals of philosophical theory. Humanization of man and society. Most general issues of social philosophy. Cognition as a constant dialogue with reality. The purposefulness of contemporary social philosophy.
	Philosophy of science.	The issues of the philosophy of science. The philosophy of science as the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including the formal sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences. The nature of scientific statements, concepts, and conclusions. The types of reasoning used to arrive at conclusions and the formulation of the scientific method, including its limits.
	Ontology. Philosophy of being. Theory of dialectics. Epistemology. Philosophy of politics and education.	Ontology in philosophy. The questions of being throw the history of philosophy. Prima philosophia, metaphysica and theologia in ontology. The material ontology as counterpart of formal ontology. The discovery of the first principles and causes of reality, the study of being qua being, and the study of the divine. The aim of descriptive metaphysics in philosophy.
	Problems of human in philosophy. (Self-consciousness as the basis of personal identity). Philosophy of history. Philosophy of religion	Problemsof human through history of philosophy.System of human values in philosophy. Self-consciousness or Self-awareness as the knowledge of one's own presence and existence, including one's own traits, feelings and behaviors. Self-consciousness is a unique type of consciousness. Western conception of self. Self-awareness as a personal understanding of the very core of one's own identity.
15.	Philosophy of global problems.	Global problems of humanity. Rome society. Phenomenon of globalization.

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