PH02V010 Interpretive Seminar X

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lukáš Koval (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 16:40–18:15 A11 stara
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of English.
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 goal of the lecture is, on the background of a certain philosophical work, i.e. Shaftesbury’s writings, to make students acquainted with the main features of the British thought during the break of the 17th and 18th centuries. For the course will deal with these topics, which were temporally and spatially actual for the author:
- philosophy and/of religion
- philosophy of art and language
- political philosophy
- social philosophy
- neoclassical aesthetics
- freethinking
… Towards the end of the course, the students should be able of an active interpretation of the before mentioned philosophical text within its broader cultural-political horizon. They should even train their abilities as a translators, i.e. to be able to understand the sources and the different facetes of the concrete philosophical terminology.
The final countenance of the lecture will come out of the students’ ability to answer the questions, which one the text will ask them according to the above mentioned methodology.
Syllabus
  • The seminary is focused on reading and interpreting the 1st volume of Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, written by the British philosopher A. A. C. Shaftesbury (1671-1713). This volume contains totally three essays which one will be enquired in the following order: - A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm (1708) - Sensus Communis; an Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour (1709) - Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author (1710)
Literature
  • A. A. C. Shaftesbury: Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
Teaching methods
The methodology of the lecture stands on the historic-critical understanding of the text. Thus like the first the socio-cultural, historical stimuli of it will be dealt with. Secondly the comparison of Shaftesbury’s writings with the works of his contemporaries and predecessors will come.
Assessment methods
Due to the fact that seminar stands primarily on the reading of the original text, the students’ presence and good knowledge of English language is the sine qua non condition for the successful termination. The course terminates with colloquy.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2011.
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