FF:PG21A31 Philosophy II - Course Information
PG21A31 Philosophy II
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Milan Pol, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková - Timetable
- Tue 15:00–16:35 C33
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PG12A22 Philosophy I || PGJ12A22 Philosophy I
- 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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- Main objective of the course is to understand the evolution of philosophical thought and to interpret selected philosophical texts on the basis of knowledge obtained in the course
- Syllabus
- Philosophy II Selected issues of the history of European philosophy: Antique philosophy (philosophers before Socrates, anthropological turn; Socrates and sophists, systemic philosophers; Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy), Patristics and scholastics (St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, dispute over universals), Renaissance philosophy (natural philosophy, social philosophy; Machiavelli, religious reformation philosophy), Modern philosophy (rationalism; Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, empirism; Bacon, Locke, Hume), Enlightenment (Voltaire, Rousseau), German classical idealism (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel), Rise of marxism, Pozitivism (Comte, Mill, Spencer), Irrationalism, voluntarism, life philosophy (Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bergson), 20th-century philosophy (phenomenology, neopozitivism, existentialism, structuralism, postmodernism).
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- The course has a form of lecture.
- Assessment methods
- The course has a form of lecture and ends with a written exam (test).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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