V029 Social Interests and Moral Codes in Greek Antiquity

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2000
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.
Prerequisites
Tento předmět je poněkud zvláštní. Tím, že spojuje (přednášející je přesvědčen, že ústrojně) morální zřetele s politickými, a to na základě zkušeností antického Řecka. Poněvadž tu jde o historicky podloženou zkušenost, půjde o údiv nad proměnlivostí většiny kategorií s tématikou spojených. - Přednáška se vypisuje 1x za dva roky.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Preliminarily about the "heritage" of Greek Antiquity.
  • The act of settling down (the heritage of the Bronze Era). The mythical ("dark") time and its aristocratic ethos. The archaic roots of the origin of the "polis". The Spartan and the Athenian solutions (what is "honour", "virtue", "self-assertion" in a society).
  • Classical time, or also about "hegemony", peculiarities of "democracy" and its criticism. (Herodotus, Thucydides. The Athens of Pericles, the Peloponnesian Wars. Xenophon. Plato's double society model.)
  • The end of Greek independence and the decline of the polis, or the escape into individualism. Ethics as politics? (Aristotle.) The Socratic Schools.
  • Hellenism. (Within the imperial boundaries the "Epicurean garden" and a "Stoic calmness".)
  • A "sociology of morals" -- is'nt it another reductionism and relativism?
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Dopooručuje se kolokvium (se třemi vypracovanými eseji). Pro zápočet se eviduje prezence a vyžaduje zpracování 1 eseje.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999.
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