Bachelor 2025/2026

Philosophy

Type: Compulsory course (Political Science and World Politics)

When: 1 year, 3, 4 module

Online hours: 30

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

As a special mode of human rationality and creativity, philosophy has considerable intellectual value of its own but also underlies many accomplishments in science, art, religion and social organisation. The course introduces traditional philosophical topics such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology, language, right and wrong, justice and power, and recipes for virtuous life. The discussion centers on questions rather than on prominent figures and eras in the history of philosophy and aims to give a lucid and vivid introduction to complicated topics.