OP3BK_FUF Introduction into Philosophy

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Radovan Rybář, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Karel Ouroda, Ph.D.
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Marie Baráčková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/150, only registered: 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Introduction to Philosophy: The sense, place and part of philosophy in contemporary culture. The main themes and problems are solving. The settlement with other forms of spiritual culture.
Syllabus
  • Concept of philosophy,its subject and structure. Science,philosophy, mythology. Overview of basic periods in history of philosophy. Early physicists and atomists. Socrates,Plato,Aristotle. Patristics. Renaissance culture and thinking. Prerequisites of origin of modern thinking. Descartes,Spinoza,Leibniz. Optimistic rationalism of Enlightenment. Philosophy of Kant. Characteristics, direction and periodisation of philosophy of 19th and 20th century. Early positivism. Voluntary and nihilistic line. Mechanistic philosophy and vitalism. Philosophical anthropology. Heidegger's fundamental ontology and philosophy of existence. Forming of New Positivism. Reaktions to post-modernism. History of Czech philosophical thinking. Reformation and humanism. Comenius. Enlightenment and National Revival. Hegelianism and Herbartism. Positivism and its stages. T.G.Masaryk. Philosophy of Czech Protestantism and Catolicism. Structuralism and Marxism. Phenomenology. J.Patočka. Philosophy in exile and samizdat
Literature
  • ANZENBACHER, Arno. Úvod do filozofie. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991, 304 s. ISBN 8004260381. info
  • STÖRIG, Hans Joachim. Malé dějiny filosofie [Zvon, 1996]. Translated by Petr Rezek - Miroslav Petříček - Karel Šprunk. 5. vyd. Praha: Zvon, 1996, 559 s. ISBN 80-7113-175-X. info
  • PETŘÍČEK, Miroslav. Úvod do (současné) filosofie : 11 improvizovaných přednášek [Petříček, 1997]. 4., upr. vyd. Praha: Herrmann & synové, 1997, 178 s. info
  • SOKOL, Jan. Malá filosofie člověka ; a Slovník filosofických pojmů. Edited by Jan Sokol. Třetí rozšířené vydán. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1998, 389 stran. ISBN 8070212535. info
  • HORYNA, Břetislav. Filosofický slovník. Olomouc: Olomouc, 1998. ISBN 80-7182-064-4. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
přednáška, kolokvium, písemný test (v případě neúčasti při testu - ústní zkouška)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010.
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