PH_MaZ Master State Examination in Philosophy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).
Teacher(s)
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 and to have accepted diploma work or to 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. The subjects of exam: The history of philosophy; systematic philosophy.
Syllabus
  • Organization and content of M.A. final exam from philosophy Selection and preparation of questions - Student answers three questions. - Student prepares one question based on his option at home; the selected question has to be notified by e-mail to the secretary of department and to the head of department at latest three days before the exam. If not, the question is assigned to the student by the jury during the exam, together with other questions. During the exam, it is not permitted to use any written preparations. The answer to prepared question, as well to themes selected by lot has to be based on the knowledge of literature and has to respect the following structure: - a) presentation of relevant primary and secondary literature - b) explicit formulation of problem - c) interpretation (own or adopted interpretation is accepted) - d) situation of problem and its interpretation in present context - At the exam, student selects by lot one question from each problematic field; the question prepared at home is excluded. Total time of preparation: 15 minutes. Problematic fields from the history of philosophy 1. Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Sophists, Socrates 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Hellenistic philosophy and early medieval philosophy 5. Scholastics 12th-13th century 6. Renaissance and Humanism 7. Early modern philosophy: Rationalism 8. Early modern philosophy: Empiricism 9. Kant (transcendental idealism) 10. Hegel (phenomenology of spirit, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, philosophy of law) 11. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche 12. Marx a Marxism 13. Husserl and further development of phenomenology 14. Heidegger – fundamental ontology 15. Philosophy of life (Dilthey, Bergson, French and German existentialism) 16. Neopositivism and analytic philosophy 17. Pragmatism and neopragmatism 18. Structuralism a poststructuralism (Foucault, Derrida, Deconstruction) 19. Frankfurt School (critic theory of society, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Honneth) Problematic fields from systematic philosophy 1. Metaphysics: problem of the so-called first philosophy 2. Historical changes of ontology, substance and non-substance models 3. Categories of ontology – history and present 4. Space and time 5. Causality, functionality, teleology, correlation 6. Movement and evolution as ontological categories 7. Knowledge and types of knowledge 8. Method 9. Philosophy of language (logical semantics, semiotics) 10. Problems of political and social philosophy (ideology, theory of justice, liberalism, communitarism) 11. Theory of science (history of science, philosophy of science, structural and functional conception of theory of science) 12. Philosophical anthropology 13. Major problems of ethics 14. Meta-ethical theory 15. Theory of truth 16. Problem of liberty, determinism and indeterminism 17. History as philosophical problem 18. Philosophy of science and problems of environmentalism 19. Philosophy of mind (consciousness, self-awareness, reflection, apperception, self-reflection, identity)
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Výběr a příprava otázek: Student odpovídá na 3 otázky. Student si doma připraví 1 otázku z libovolného koše, svoji volbu sdělí nejpozději 3 dny před konáním zkoušky e-mailem na sekretariát katedry a vedoucímu katedry filozofie. V opačném případě mu bude otázka zadána komisí spolu s ostatními. Při zkoušce není povoleno používat žádné předem připravené písemné podklady. Odpověď na zvolenou otázku i vylosované okruhy musí vycházet ze znalosti pramenné literatury a má tuto strukturu: a) uvedení relevantní primární a sekundární literatury b) explicitní formulace problému c) interpretace (akceptována je převzatá i vlastní interpretace) d) zařazení problému a jeho interpretace do současného kontextu U zkoušky si student vylosuje z každého problémového okruhu 1 otázku s vyloučením otázky z domácí přípravy. Celkový čas na přípravu: 15 minut.
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:8088/wkfi/w-studium/okruhy-k-magisterske-zkousce
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, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, 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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