ESA281 The Idea of Beauty in Plato - seminar

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Martin Cajthaml, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Timetable
Thu 14:10–15:45 zruseno D31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are the follwing: making students familiar with the structure, content and the philosophical relveance of Platos Symposium; giving students basic orientation in other crucial dialogues on love and beauty, i.e. Phaedrus, Lysis, Ion; students should acquire the ability to read, understand and interpret platonic texts; students will learn to find in the texts aspects of Platos philosophical teaching on love and beauty that were presented systematically in the course Idea of beauty in Plato; students will practise the ability to connect creativelly the antient approach to the sphere of aesthetics with the contemporary one and to use all the acquired knowledge and abilities in the preparation of their seminar papers
Syllabus
  • 1) General introduction in the Symposium + preludium (172a-174a2)
  • 2) narrated prologue (174a3-178a5) + the speech of Phaedrus (178a6-180b8)
  • 3) the speech of Pausanias(180c4-185c3)
  • 4) the speech of Eryximachus(185e6-188e4) + Aristofanova řeč (189c2-193e2)
  • 5) the speech of Agathon(194e4-197e8) + interludium (198a1-201c9)
  • 6) the speech of Socrates, part one(201d1-206a10)
  • 7) the speech of Socrates, part two (206b1-212a8)
  • 8) the speech of Alcibiades + conclusion of the dialogue(212b1-223d10)
  • 9) Phaedrus (246a2-252c2)
  • 10) Phaedrus (252c3-257b6)
Literature
    required literature
  • PLATÓN. Symposion. Translated by František Novotný. 3., opr. vyd. Praha: Institut pro stedoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 1993, 80 s. ISBN 80-85241-31-5. info
    recommended literature
  • Platone, Simposio, a cura di Giovanni Reale, Mondadori, 2001.
  • Gerhard Krüger, Einsicht und Leidenschaft, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1983
  • Plato, Symposium, introduction and translation of Christopher Gill, London: Penguin Books 1999.
  • - K.J. Dover, Greek homosexuality, Harvard University Press, 1978.
  • - Charles H. Kahn, “Plato’s Theory of Desire”, Revue of Metaphysics 1987/88 XLI, p. 77-103.
  • CAJTHAML, Martin. Plato´s Symposium. Proceedings of the fifth symposium platonicum pragense. první. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2007, 349 pp. ISBN 978-80-7298-293-6. info
  • PLATÓN. Theagés ; Charmidés ; Lachés ; Lysis ; Euthydémos ; Prótagoras ; Gorgias ; Menón ; Hippias Větší ; Hippias Menší ; Ión ; Menexenos. Edited by Platón, Translated by František Novotný. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2003, 540 s. ISBN 8072980661. info
    not specified
  • REALE, Giovanni. Kulturní a duchovní kořeny Evropy : za obrození evropského člověka. Translated by Klára Osolsobě - Petr Osolsobě. 1. vydání. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2005, 183 stran. ISBN 8073250683. info
  • REALE, Giovanni. Platón : pokus o novou interpretaci velkých Platónových dialogů ve světle nepsaných nauk. Translated by Martin Cajthaml. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2005, 699 s. ISBN 8086005232. info
  • PATOČKA, Jan. Platone e l'Europa. Edited by Giovanni Reale, Translated by Martin Cajthaml - Giuseppe Girgenti. 1. ed. Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1997, 347 s. ISBN 88-343-0865-4. info
Teaching methods
Every session of the seminar requires homework preparation in reading the assigned study literature. After teacher's presentation of the general and particular features of the subject, students are guided to interpretation of the chosen extracts, and class discussions follow.
Assessment methods
written exam, presentations
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Obecné podmínky ukončování kursů Semináře estetiky
Information on course enrolment limitations: posluchači bc. estetiky, kteří začali své studium před více než třemi semestry, musí mít splněnu postupovou zkoušku (ESAPZE), jinak si tento předmět nemohou zapsat
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