FI:V015 Political Science I - Course Information

V015 Political Science I

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1997

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Doporučuje se absolvovat (ale není to podmínkou) kurs V019 Political Science II.

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

Syllabus

The subject, basic concepts, and function of politology. The individual and his/her society.
Presuppositions of the origin of the old Greek democracy. The Greek-Persian Wars and the problem of hegemony. The big "Pelopponessos" quest.
Political ideals of Plato and Aristotle.
The Pax Romana. St. Augustin.
The fighting over investiture. The Constitution of Venice.
The Hussite Revolution. Humanism and Reformation as programs of social reform. Machiavelli. Luther and Calvin. Social utopia (Morus, Bacon, Campanella, Comenius).
The beginnings of modern legal thinking (Bodin, Althusius, Grotius). The Westphalia Peace.
The background of the "Big Rebellion" in the 17-th-century England . The English Parliamentarism. Hobbes, Milton, Harrington.
Continental Europe in the second half of the 17-th century. The outcome of the English "Glorious Revolution". Locke.
The aim of these lectures is a clarification of the basic concepts of politics as well as of the structure and teleology of power. A historical explanation seems to be the best method of how to follow the dramatic tension between the formulated goals and values to be reached, always in another way and in another preferential sequence.

Language of instruction

Czech

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1996, Autumn 1996.