FF:PH1202 Antiquity, Middle Ages - II - Course Information
PH1202 History of Philosophy II - Antiquity, Middle Ages
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Josef Petrželka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 15:00–16:35 B11
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PH1104 Antiquity - I
- 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
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The lecture continues the course History of Philosophy I and deals with the most important thinkers, streams and problems in the philosophy from the age of Hellenism to the High Middle Ages.
After the completion of the course, students should be able to:
understand the basic problems; describe the thinking of the most important philosophers in the period from Hellenism to Thomas Aquinas. - Syllabus
- 1. Hellenistic philosophical schools:
- a) Scepticism,
- b) Epicureanism,
- c) Stoicism.
- 2. The end of Greek philosophy - the Neo-Platonists.
- 2. The formation of the Christian thought - the Apologists and Church fathers.
- 3. The philosophy at the end of Antiquity and transformation of Greek thought heritage into the Middle Ages (Augustine, Boëthius...).
- 4. Main questions of medieval philosophy:
- a) the relation of God and world,
- b) the relation between theology and philosophy,
- c) the problem of universals,
- d) the proofs of the existence of God.
- 5. The main features of medieval philosophy (Anselm, Abelard, Thomas Aquinas).
- Literature
- HEINZMANN, Richard. Středověká filosofie. Přeložil B. Horyna. 1st ed. Olomouc: Olomouc, 2000, 351 pp. ISBN 80-7182-105-5. info
- Libera, Alain de. Středověká filosofie: La philosophie médiévale (Orig.). Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh 2001.
- FLOSS, Pavel. Úvod do dějin středověkého myšlení. Vyd. 1. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 1994, 153 s. ISBN 8070673532. info
- PIEPER, Josef. Scholastika : osobnosti a náměty středověké filosofie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1993, 146 s. ISBN 8070211318. info
- Texty k studiu dějin středověké filosofie. Edited by Stanislav Sousedík. 1. vyd. Praha: Karlova univerzita, 1994, 176 s. ISBN 80-7066-877-6. info
- SOUSEDÍK, Stanislav. Jsoucno a bytí :úvod do četby sv. Tomáše Akvinského. Vyd. 1. Praha: Křesťanská akademie, 1992, 107 s. ISBN 80-900615-8-3. info
- KENNY, Anthony John Patrick. Tomáš Akvinský. Translated by Josef Hošek - Jiří Polívka - Stanislav Sousedík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Institut pro středoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 1993, 107 s. ISBN 80-85241-25-0. info
- PIEPER, Josef. Tomáš Akvinský : život a dílo. Translated by Martin Pokorný. Vyd. ve Vyšehradu 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1997, 159 s. ISBN 8070212241. info
- KENNY, Anthony. Tomáš o lidském duchu : Aquinas on mind (Orig.). Translated by Karel Šprunk - Stanislav Sousedík. Vyd. 1. Praha: Krystal OP, 1997, 151 s. ISBN 80-85929-18-X. info
- SOUSEDÍK, Stanislav. Jan Duns Scotus : doctor subtilis a jeho čeští žáci. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1989, 341 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures. On-line discussions.
- Assessment methods
- The condition for the gain of the credit is the participation in discussion forums in e-learning system ELF. Details are given in the system.(http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=2699).
The key for entering the course in ELF is: DF_II_2010 - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Je součastí postupové zkoušky s předměty Dějiny filosofie I - antika a Ontologie I
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://www.phil.muni.cz/fil/antika/dfii
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
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