FI:VV029 Social Interests in Greek - Course Information

VV029 Social Interests and Moral Codes in Greek Antiquity

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. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.

Timetable

Wed 16:00–17:50 B003

Prerequisites

! V029 Social Interests and Moral Codes in Greek Antiquity
The course of lectures counts with an interest of the participant in personal and all-human values in our life.

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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

This subject is rather special in its connecting of moral issues with the political ones; the lecturer hopes it has been done adequately. It has been conceived on the basis of the experience of antique Greece, and thus, on simpler models, it may contribute to a better orientation in our contemporary world. As it is a historically based experience, it also presents a certain astonishment over the changeability of the majority of categories here applied.

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?

Literature

• Texty zadané během přednášek.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Doporučuje se kolokvium (se dvěma vypracovanými eseji). Pro zápočet se eviduje prezence a vyžaduje zpracování 1 eseje.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught once in two years.

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