PH0260 Nature and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2002
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ing. Josef Šmajs, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Prerequisites
The knowledge of the history of philosophy
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The lecture offers the philosophical understanding of the body of ecological crisis as a conflict between the natural and the cultural evolution. It tries to make a new acknowledgement of a nature and natural and it shows the human culture as another type of physical orderliness of terrestrial reality. When seeking for the solution of present crisis it comes out from the new ontological picture of the world, but it prices at the same time the role of the cultural system at all, including the intermediary task of policy.
Syllabus
  • 1. The evolution ontology as a base of the ecology
  • 2. The man, the nature, and the culture
  • 3. The exceptionality of terrestrial nature
  • 4. The culture in danger
  • 5. The ecological side of technique
  • 6. The ecological education and etics
  • 7. The ecological policy
Literature
  • Lem, S.: Summa technologiae. Praha 1995
  • Král, M.: Kam směřuje civilizace? Praha 1998
  • KOHÁK, Erazim. Zelená svatozář : kapitoly z ekologické etiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1998, 203 s. ISBN 80-85850-63-X. info
  • ŠMAJS, Josef. Ohrožená kultura :od evoluční ontologie k ekologické politice. Illustrated by Zdeněk Hajný. 2., rozš. vyd. Praha: Hynek, 1997, 205 s. ISBN 80-85906-53-8. info
  • JONAS, Hans. Princip odpovědnosti :pokus o etiku pro technologickou civilizaci. Translated by Břetislav Horyna - Zdeněk Bígl. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997, 318 s. ISBN 80-86005-06-2. info
  • ŠMAJS, Josef. Kultura proti přírodě. Vyd. 2., rozš. České Budějovice: Dobromysl, 1996, 63 s. info
  • KELLER, Jan. Až na dno blahobytu. 2. vyd. Brno: Hnutí Duha, 1995, 143 s. info
  • WILSON, Edward O. Rozmanitost života :umožní poznání zákonů biodiverzity její záchranu? Translated by Antonín Hradilek. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1995, 444 s. ISBN 80-7106-113-1. info
  • LIBROVÁ, Hana. Pestří a zelení :(kapitoly o dobrovolné skromnosti). Vyd. 1. Brno: Veronica, 1994, 218 s. ISBN 80-85368-18-8. info
  • GORE, Al. Země na misce vah. Edited by Jan Jařab - Josef Vavroušek - František Benda. 1. vyd. Praha: Argo, 1994, 372 s. ISBN 8085794217. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
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