FF:PH1205 Philosophy of History - Course Information

PH1205 Philosophy of History

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2002

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Ivana Holzbachová, CSc. (lecturer)

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Prerequisites

PH1107 Social Philosophy
passing through the lecture PH1107 Social and Political Philosophy

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

Course objectives

Concepts of the social philosophy and of the philosophy of history from the half of XIX. cent. till today.

Syllabus

1. Utopianism
2. Marxist understanding to the history
3. Positivistic understanding to the history (Comte, Mill)
4. Irrationalism (Nietzsche a Spengler)
5. Structuralist understanding to the history and a man
6. The history in the school of Annales
7. Neo-Thomistic understanding to the history and society
8. The understanding to the history, man, and society in the ecological philosophy
9. The history as seen in the theory of post-industrial society (Bell, Toffler)
10. Liberalism in the history and today (Hayek)
11. Possible schemes of the historical development and the restoration of the believe to the progress (Fukuyama)
11. Students will also discuss the systematic terms and questions as revolution and evolution, nature and a man etc.

Literature

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Kurs probíhá formou přednášek a seminářů, přičemž v seminářích se probírá především primární literatura, o níž se zmiňují přednášky.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.