PGK21A31 Philosophy II

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petr Novotný, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
PGK12A22 Philosophy I
Completion of the course Philosophy I
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 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
  • BLECHA, Ivan. Filosofie. 3. opr. a rozš. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 1998, 239 s. ISBN 80-7182-069-5. info
  • STÖRIG, Hans Joachim. Malé dějiny filosofie [Zvon, 1996]. Translated by Petr Rezek - Miroslav Petříček - Karel Šprunk. 5. vyd. Praha: Zvon, 1996, 559 s. ISBN 80-7113-175-X. info
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.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: blokově.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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