SZ1037a Introduction to Philosophy

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Mgr. Erika Vonková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Mgr. Erika Vonková
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jitka Autratová
Supplier department: Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Thu 13:55–14:40 učebna 55
Prerequisites
Completion of a course: written test.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course students should be able to: understand and interpret selected historical ways of approaching and grasping the term "philosophy", that influence our ways of thinking and the people's views of the world and human existence in the 21st Century.
Syllabus
  • 1. Philosophy: What Is IT ? 2. Herakleitos: What Is "I" ? 3. Plato: Picture Of Man. 4. Helenism: Basic Question. 5. R. Descartes: Way To " Cogito, ergo sum". 6. J. Locke: His Epistemology. 7. G. Berkeley: His Relation To Locke. 8. D. Hume: His Agnosticism. 9. I. Kant: His Turn To Subject. 10.A. Schopenhauer: Voluntarism. 11.F. Nietzsche: Nihilism. 12.Existencialism In France - J. P. Sartre, A. Camus
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Sarter, Jean-Paul. Nausea. Transl. by Robert Baldick. London: Penguin Books, 1963.
  • Cumming, R. D. The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sarter. New York: Random House, 1965.
  • Tredennick, Hugh. Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. West Drayton: Penguin Books, 1954
  • POPKIN, Richard H. and Avrum STROLL. Philosophy made simple. 2nd ed., rev. New York: Broadway Books, 1993, xv, 332. ISBN 0385425333. info
  • KENNY, Anthony. The God of the philosophers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979, vii, 135. ISBN 0198249683. info
  • DURANT, Will. The story of philosophy : the lives and opinions of the greater philosophers. London: Ernest Benn, 1929, xiii, 592. info
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Completion of a course: written test. 15 out of 20 questions correct.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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