PB12JA15 Philosophy I

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Milan Pol, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková
Timetable
Tue 15:00–16:35 N21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Philosophy I Object of philosophy. Rise of philosophy. Philosophy and myth. Philosophy and science. Philosophy and religion. Philosophy and ideology. Fundamental philosophic disciplines, their objects and content: ontology, gnoseology, axiology, ethics, philosophy of history, social philosophy. The main types of European rationality.
Syllabus
  • Selected issues of the history of European philosophy: Antique philosophy (philosophers before Socrates, anthropological turn; Socrates and sophists, systemic philosophers; Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy), Patristics and scholastics (St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, dispute over universals), Renaissance philosophy (natural philosophy, social philosophy; Machiavelli, religious reformation philosophy), Modern philosophy (rationalism; Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, empirism; Bacon, Locke, Hume), Enlightenment (Voltaire, Rousseau), German classical idealism (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel), Rise of marxism, Pozitivism (Comte, Mill, Spencer), Irrationalism, voluntarism, life philosophy (Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bergson), 20th-century philosophy (phenomenology, neopozitivism, existentialism, structuralism, postmodernism).
Literature
  • BLECHA, Ivan. Filosofie :(základní problémy). 2. opr. a rozš. vyd. Olomouc: FIN, 1996, 271 s. ISBN 80-7182-032-6. info
  • ANZENBACHER, Arno. Úvod do filozofie. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991, 304 s. ISBN 8004260381. info
Assessment methods
Credit (essey)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2025.
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