FF:PB21PA24 Philosophy II - Course Information
PB21PA24 Philosophy II
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 14:10–15:45 B2.43
- Prerequisites
- PB12JA15 Philosophy I
Completion of the course 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.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Education and Counselling (programme FF, B-PD)
- 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 is taught as both lectures and seminars. Semestral reading of covered educational texts.
- Assessment methods
- The course has a form of lecture and ends with a written exam (test)consisting of 10 -12 open questions. Written examination aimed at testing the student´s insight into the main theories and at the work of the main representatives of the scholary discourses. Minimum pass level 80%.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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