PH1205 Philosophy of History

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2005
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Ivana Holzbachová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:35 20
Prerequisites
PH_PoZ Qualifying Exam. in Phil. && 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
  • J. S. Mill: O svobodě
  • Nietzsche, F.: O užitku a škodlivosti historie pro život. In: Nietzsche: Nečasové úvahy
  • HOLZBACHOVÁ, Ivana. Dějiny společenských teorií (History of Social Theories). 2. přepracované vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2000, 106 pp. ISBN 80-210-2357-0. info
  • NAESS, Arne. Ekologie, pospolitost a životní styl :náčrt ekosofie. Edited by David Rothenberg, Translated by Jiří Hrubý. Vyd. 1. Tulčík: Abies, 1993, 310 s. ISBN 80-88699-09-6. info
  • HOLZBACHOVÁ, Ivana. Sociální filozofie : (antologie textů). Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993, 129 s. ISBN 8021005866. info
  • MARX, Karl and Friedrich ENGELS. Německá ideologie. 1, Feuerbach : protiklad materialistického a idealistického nazírání. Praha: Svoboda, 1952. info
  • COMTE, Auguste. Sociologie. Edited by Emanuel Chalupný, Translated by Rudolf Brejcha. Praha: Orbis, 1927, 466 s. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Kurs probíhá formou přednášek a seminářů, přičemž v seminářích se probírá především primární literatura, o níž se zmiňují přednášky.
Minimum ke zkoušce:
Marxistické chápání dějin
Pozitivismus a jeho představitelé
Iracionalistické chápání dějin
Strukturalismus a dějiny
Teorie postindustriální společnosti
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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