FF:PH_MaZ Master Examination - Course Information
PH_MaZ Master State Examination in Philosophy
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2000
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Petr Horák, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Břetislav Horyna, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Ing. Josef Šmajs, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová - Prerequisites
- To join the exam students are required to possess the desired number of credits of the 2nd cycle (40 in particular subjects, 30 for diploma Mgr. work, resp. 10 for a year Mgr. work) and to vindicate diploma work or to have accepted a year work (for non-diploma students).
- 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
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, M-PH)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-HS)
- Philosophy (programme FF, N-PH)
- Course objectives
- State Mgr. exam - after 10th semester. The subjects of exam: The history of philosophy; systematic philosophy.
- Syllabus
- Selected topics from the history of philosophy:
- 1.Pre-Socratics, the Sophists, Socrates, Plato
- 2.Aristotle and Hellenism
- 3.The Church fathers, Scholasticism and medieval Arabic philosophy
- 4.Renaissance and Modern Period
- 5.The Enlightment, its characteristics and main thinkers
- 6.German philosophy from Leibniz to Hegel (including)
- 7.Positivism of XIX. cent.
- 8.German philosophy from 1830 till Dilthey; Neo-Kantianism
- 9.Phenomenology, its followers and related schools
- 10.Neo-positivistic schools and analytic philosophy
- 11.Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism
- 12.Philosophical Hermeneutics
- 13.Anglo-American philosophy of XX. cent.
- 14.French philosophy of XX. cent.
- 15.German philosophy of XX. cent.
- 16.Philosophical anthropology
- Selected topics of systematic philosophy:
- 1.Changes of the contents of ontology in the history of philosophy; historical ontological concepts
- 2.Ontological categories - history and today
- 3.Philosophical reflection of the ideas about Nature, World and Universe in the modern concepts (XIX. - XX. cent.)
- 4.Dynamic and static picture of the world, development and evolution in the nature and culture
- 5.The Nature, technics, culture in ontology.
- 6.The main questions of epistemology and their historical development.
- 7.The question of cognizableness. Types of knowledge.
- 8.Logic, language and knowledge.
- 9.The Truth theory and criterions of truth.
- 10.Subject - object problem.
- 11.Theories and methods (scientific and philosophical)
- 12.Philosophy of science
- 13.Philosophy of virtues
- 14.Philosophy of religion
- 15.Philosophy of society, policy, law, history
- 16.Philosophy of arts
- Student has to answer two questions from both areas (A,B) - one of them is entered immediately before the exam, the second student prepares at home; this home preparation has to follow these footsteps:
- *explicit formulation of the question
- *historical background
- *its history, main approaches in the history
- *the question today
- *attempt for students' own solution
- *primary and secondary literature
- The topic for home preparation must be different from the diploma or year work; the student must look after the compliance of this condition.
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Z každého okruhu (A, B) se zodpovídají dvě otázky - jedna je zadaná na místě před zkouškou, jednu si uchazeč připraví předem.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester. - Teacher's information
- http://www.phil.muni.cz/fil/vyuka/zkousky.html
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2000, recent)
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