FF:PH_MaZ Master Examination - Course Information
PH_MaZ Master State Examination in Philosophy
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Petr Horák, CSc. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Ing. Josef Šmajs, CSc. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc. (alternate examiner) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová - Prerequisites
- To join the exam students are required to possess the desired number of credits and to have accepted diploma work or to a year work (for non-diploma students).
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- State Mgr. exam. The subjects of exam: The history of philosophy; systematic philosophy.
- Syllabus
- Organization and content of M.A. final exam from philosophy Selection and preparation of questions - Student answers three questions. - Student prepares one question based on his option at home; the selected question has to be notified by e-mail to the secretary of department and to the head of department at latest three days before the exam. If not, the question is assigned to the student by the jury during the exam, together with other questions. During the exam, it is not permitted to use any written preparations. The answer to prepared question, as well to themes selected by lot has to be based on the knowledge of literature and has to respect the following structure: - a) presentation of relevant primary and secondary literature - b) explicit formulation of problem - c) interpretation (own or adopted interpretation is accepted) - d) situation of problem and its interpretation in present context - At the exam, student selects by lot one question from each problematic field; the question prepared at home is excluded. Total time of preparation: 15 minutes. Problematic fields from the history of philosophy 1. Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Sophists, Socrates 2. Plato 3. Aristotle 4. Hellenistic philosophy and early medieval philosophy 5. Scholastics 12th-13th century 6. Renaissance and Humanism 7. Early modern philosophy: Rationalism 8. Early modern philosophy: Empiricism 9. Kant (transcendental idealism) 10. Hegel (phenomenology of spirit, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, philosophy of law) 11. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche 12. Marx a Marxism 13. Husserl and further development of phenomenology 14. Heidegger – fundamental ontology 15. Philosophy of life (Dilthey, Bergson, French and German existentialism) 16. Neopositivism and analytic philosophy 17. Pragmatism and neopragmatism 18. Structuralism a poststructuralism (Foucault, Derrida, Deconstruction) 19. Frankfurt School (critic theory of society, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Honneth) Problematic fields from systematic philosophy 1. Metaphysics: problem of the so-called first philosophy 2. Historical changes of ontology, substance and non-substance models 3. Categories of ontology – history and present 4. Space and time 5. Causality, functionality, teleology, correlation 6. Movement and evolution as ontological categories 7. Knowledge and types of knowledge 8. Method 9. Philosophy of language (logical semantics, semiotics) 10. Problems of political and social philosophy (ideology, theory of justice, liberalism, communitarism) 11. Theory of science (history of science, philosophy of science, structural and functional conception of theory of science) 12. Philosophical anthropology 13. Major problems of ethics 14. Meta-ethical theory 15. Theory of truth 16. Problem of liberty, determinism and indeterminism 17. History as philosophical problem 18. Philosophy of science and problems of environmentalism 19. Philosophy of mind (consciousness, self-awareness, reflection, apperception, self-reflection, identity)
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Výběr a příprava otázek: Student odpovídá na 3 otázky. Student si doma připraví 1 otázku z libovolného koše, svoji volbu sdělí nejpozději 3 dny před konáním zkoušky e-mailem na sekretariát katedry a vedoucímu katedry filozofie. V opačném případě mu bude otázka zadána komisí spolu s ostatními. Při zkoušce není povoleno používat žádné předem připravené písemné podklady. Odpověď na zvolenou otázku i vylosované okruhy musí vycházet ze znalosti pramenné literatury a má tuto strukturu: a) uvedení relevantní primární a sekundární literatury b) explicitní formulace problému c) interpretace (akceptována je převzatá i vlastní interpretace) d) zařazení problému a jeho interpretace do současného kontextu U zkoušky si student vylosuje z každého problémového okruhu 1 otázku s vyloučením otázky z domácí přípravy. Celkový čas na přípravu: 15 minut.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester. - Teacher's information
- http://www.phil.muni.cz:8088/wkfi/w-studium/okruhy-k-magisterske-zkousce
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2008, recent)
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