OP3BP_FUFP Introduction into Philosophy

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Radovan Rybář, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Mgr. Erika Vonková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Pecina, Ph.D.
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Marie Baráčková
Timetable
Mon 16:10–16:55 učebna 50
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 65 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/65, only registered: 0/65
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Introduction to Philosophy: At the end of the course students should be able to understand the sense, place and part of philosophy in contemporary 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
  • HORYNA, Břetislav. Filosofický slovník. Olomouc: Olomouc, 1998. ISBN 80-7182-064-4. info
  • PETŘÍČEK, Miroslav. Úvod do (současné) filosofie : [11 improvizovaných přednášek]. 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
  • BLECHA, Ivan. Filosofie. 4. opr. a rozš. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002, 279 s. ISBN 80-7182-147-0. info
Teaching methods
Lecture.
Assessment methods
colloquium will be awarded for successful completion of the final written test Written examination; fruitfulness: 75 %.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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