PB12JA15 Philosophy I

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2017
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. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 B2.13
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
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.
Students receive basic competence in the field of philosophy and the knowledge of history of philosophy. They are capable of interpretation of philosophical texts and understand various thought.
After completing the course the students will have learned the fundamental schools and scholars in history of philosophy and the basic problems of systematic philosophy; they will be able to interpret theoretical, cultural and socio-political conceptions, and will be able to apply philosophical method to particular social, cultural and scientific theories.
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
Teaching methods
The course is taught as both lectures and seminars. Semestral reading of covered educational texts.
Assessment methods
The course ends with receiving of credits for an essay (min. 5400 characters) on a philosophical work chosen from proposed list and written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2025.
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