HEN607 Philosophy of living nature

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ivona Tolarová
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:30 M117
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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to explain changes in the attitude towards nature in the history of european philosophy and culture. Students will be able and explain basic attitudes toward nature and basics concepts of living nature.
Syllabus
  • 1 Introduction. Basic concepts and ideas. Fysis in ionian philospophy. Empedokles. 2 Life and living nature in the works of Aristotle. 3 Renaissance philosophy of nature(Cusanus, Bruno, Paracelsus). 4 Descartes, La Mettrie: mechanicism and life. 5 Critique of mechanicism in Enligtement: Rousseau, Leibniz. 6 Kant: Critique of Judgement - Teleology. 7 Goethe – basic thesis towards organism and its work in the field of natural philosophy. 8 Novalis - nature in the work of philosopher and author of early Romanticism. 9 Evolutionary theory and concept of life and organism: Spencer, Darwin. 10 Ernst Haeckels monism 11 Henri Bergson and its concept of life. 12 Nature in the environmental thinking - wilderness and wildness in the work of Thoreau and Snyder. 13 Environmental philosophy of David Abram, Conclusion of lectures.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Ballauf, Th.: Die Wissenschaft vom Leben. Freiburg-München 1954
  • MICHÁLEK, Jiří. Corpus organicum :(živé ve filosofickém myšlení). Vyd. 1. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2000, 72 s. ISBN 80-7298-021-1. info
    not specified
  • PLATÓN. Kritias (Přít.) : Timaios ; Kritias. info
  • ABRAM, David. Procitnutí do živé země. Edited by Jiří Zemánek, Translated by Michaela Melechovská. 1. vyd. Nymburk: OPS, 2008, 166 s. ISBN 9788090377394. info
  • DESCARTES, René. Principy filosofie :výbor doplněný dvěma Descartovými dopisy princezně Alžbětě Falcké. Edited by Tomáš Marvan - Petr Glombíček. 2., opr. vyd. Praha: Filosofia, 1998, 179 s. ISBN 80-7007-120-6. info
  • ARISTOTELES. O duši. Translated by Antonín Kříž. 3. rozš. vyd. Praha: Rezek, 1996, 301 s. ISBN 80-901796-9-X. info
  • DESCARTES, René. Rozprava o metodě. Edited by Jan Patočka, Translated by Věra Szathmáryová-Vlčková. 3. vyd., v Nakladatelství S. Praha: Svoboda, 1992, 67 s. ISBN 8020502165. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. O nebi ; O vzniku a zániku. Edited by Aristotelés. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Pravda, 1985, 275 s. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Člověk a příroda. Edited by Milan Mráz, Translated by Antonín Kříž. Praha: Svoboda, 1984. info
  • LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm. Monadologie a jiné práce. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1982, 175 s. info
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Organon. Translated by Antonín Kříž. 1. vyd. [Praha]: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1958, 75 s. URL info
  • BRUNO, Giordano. Dialogy. Translated by Jan Blahoslav Kozák. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství politické literatury, 1956, 457 s. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral individual exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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