PH_MaZ Master State Examination in Philosophy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Ivana Holzbachová, CSc. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Petr Horák, CSc. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Ing. Josef Šmajs, CSc. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Prerequisites
To join the exam students are required to possess the desired number of credits of the 2nd cycle (40 in particular subjects, 30 for diploma Mgr. work, resp. 10 for a year Mgr. work) and to vindicate diploma work or to have accepted a year work (for non-diploma students).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
State Mgr. exam - after 10th semester. The subjects of exam: The history of philosophy; systematic philosophy.
Syllabus
  • Selected topics from the history of philosophy:
  • 1.Pre-Socratics, the Sophists, Socrates, Plato
  • 2.Aristotle and Hellenism
  • 3.The Church fathers, Scholasticism and medieval Arabic philosophy
  • 4.Renaissance and Modern Period
  • 5.The Enlightment, its characteristics and main thinkers
  • 6.German philosophy from Leibniz to Hegel (including)
  • 7.Positivism of XIX. cent.
  • 8.German philosophy from 1830 till Dilthey; Neo-Kantianism
  • 9.Phenomenology, its followers and related schools
  • 10.Neo-positivistic schools and analytic philosophy
  • 11.Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism
  • 12.Philosophical Hermeneutics
  • 13.Anglo-American philosophy of XX. cent.
  • 14.French philosophy of XX. cent.
  • 15.German philosophy of XX. cent.
  • 16.Philosophical anthropology
  • Selected topics of systematic philosophy:
  • 1.Changes of the contents of ontology in the history of philosophy; historical ontological concepts
  • 2.Ontological categories - history and today
  • 3.Philosophical reflection of the ideas about Nature, World and Universe in the modern concepts (XIX. - XX. cent.)
  • 4.Dynamic and static picture of the world, development and evolution in the nature and culture
  • 5.The Nature, technics, culture in ontology.
  • 6.The main questions of epistemology and their historical development.
  • 7.The question of cognizableness. Types of knowledge.
  • 8.Logic, language and knowledge.
  • 9.The Truth theory and criterions of truth.
  • 10.Subject - object problem.
  • 11.Theories and methods (scientific and philosophical)
  • 12.Philosophy of science
  • 13.Philosophy of virtues
  • 14.Philosophy of religion
  • 15.Philosophy of society, policy, law, history
  • 16.Philosophy of arts
  • Student has to answer two questions from both areas (A,B) - one of them is entered immediately before the exam, the second student prepares at home; this home preparation has to follow these footsteps:
  • *explicit formulation of the question
  • *historical background
  • *its history, main approaches in the history
  • *the question today
  • *attempt for students' own solution
  • *primary and secondary literature
  • The topic for home preparation must be different from the diploma or year work; the student must look after the compliance of this condition.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Z každého okruhu (A, B) se zodpovídají dvě otázky - jedna je zadaná na místě před zkouškou, jednu si uchazeč připraví předem.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/fil/vyuka/zkousky.html
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Spring 2000, Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023.
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