LJMgrB08 The Classical Philosophy II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Timetable
Tue 11:40–13:15 A42 stara
Prerequisites
Students who wish to attend the course Classical Philosophy II are expected to have already attended the preceeding Classical Philosophy I. Exception is possible in individual cases.
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
The aim of the course is to provide student with the exposition to the Ancient philosophy from Aristotle to the end of Antiquity.
At the end of this course, students are able to characterize the philosophical writings of Aristotle, including their literary specification (arguments and proofs, inductive reasoning, defitions) individually; have overview of the most important individuals of the post-Aristotelian philosophy, i.e. the Hellenistic schools of philosophy and explain the main and most important thoughts of them; recognize and analyse the influence of Christianity on the philosophers of Late Antiquity and the re-shaping of philosophy at the dawn of the Middle Ages.
Syllabus
  • 1.-5. Aristotle: a) life, work, relationship to Plato; b) Aristotle's contribution to metaphysics, physics, logic, etics, politics and the literary criticism; c) Aristotle's influence on the next generations of philosophers in Classical and Medieval Age.
  • 6.-8. Hellenism and it's philosophical schools: a) scepticism; b) epicureanism; c) stoicism;
  • 9. Religious elements in philosophy after the turn of millenium.
  • 10. Second sophistics. Philosophy and Literature.
  • 11. Neoplatonic philosophy.
  • 12. Rise of the Christian philosophy - apologetics, patristics. Aurelius Augustinus.
  • 13. Boëthius and the shift from the Classical to Medieval philosophy.
Literature
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Aristotelovy Kategorie. Edited by Pavel Julius Vychodil. Brno: Tiskem a nákladem Benediktinské knihtiskárny, 1918, xxii, 35. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Metafysika. Translated by Antonín Kříž. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Jan Laichter, 1946, 498 s. URL info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. O nebi ; O vzniku a zániku. Edited by Aristotelés. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Pravda, 1985, 275 s. info
  • ARISTOTELES. O duši. Translated by Antonín Kříž. 3. rozš. vyd. Praha: Rezek, 1996, 301 s. ISBN 80-901796-9-X. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Etika Níkomachova. Translated by Antonín Kříž. 2. rozš. vyd. Praha: Rezek, 1996, 493 s. ISBN 80-901796-7-3. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Poetika [Aristoteles, Orbis, 1964] : Dramatické principy Aristotelovy (Obsaž.). Translated by Julie Nováková. 6. vyd., v Orbisu 2. Praha: Orbis, 1964, 97 s. info
  • PATOČKA, Jan. Aristotelés : přednášky z antické filosofie. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Vyšehrad, 1994, 128 s. ISBN 8070210672. info
  • LONG, Anthony, A. Hellénistická filosofie: Stoikové, epikurejci, skeptikové. 1st ed. Praha: Oikoumenh, 2003. Dějiny filosofie, sv. 3. ISBN 80-7298-077-7. info
  • Filosofie pozdní antiky : od staré Akademie po Jana Eriugenu : The Cambridge history of later Greek and early medieval philosophy (Orig.). Edited by Arthur Hilary Armstrong. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2002, 675 s. ISBN 80-7298-53-. info
  • HADOT, Pierre. Plótinos, čili, Prostota pohledu. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1993, 97 s. ISBN 80-85241-55-2. info
  • BOËTHIUS, Anitius Manlius Torquatu. Boëthius : poslední Říman. Translated by Václav Bahník. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1981, 205 s. URL info
  • AUGUSTIN. Vyznání. 4. vyd. Praha: Kalich, 1999, 565 s. ISBN 8070173017. info
Teaching methods
The course is taught as both lectures and seminars, however the class discussion is also a part of the lessons. Therefore, attendance and participation in the course (min. 75%) is required, as well as the regular home reading and preliminary analysing of covered philosophical texts.
Assessment methods
At the end of the course, the termination takes form of "symposial agon", for which only one date is offered. As an alternative, students may write a comparative paper concerned with different approaches of Plato and Aristotle to a chosen topic.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
Credit evaluation note: Pro studenty pětiletého magisterského studia hodnoceno počtem kreditů 4.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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