PH0253 Philosophy of Enlightenment

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Daniel Špelda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12:30–14:05 A11
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PH1207 Modern Times - IV
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 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Students define and describe basic philosophical ideals of the Enlightenment; they differentiate particular attitudes, introduce reasoning and arguments behind these attitudes and explain relation of individual attitudes to the period intellectual, social and cultural context; students contextualise particular philosophical viewpoints with the spirit of the period as a whole; they analyse and compare philosophical attitudes and ideas on the basis of reading primary and secondary sources; thanks to this they distinguish and formulate presuppositions and consequences of philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment; they sum up and evaluate their importance for later history of European culture and they consider critique of Enlightenment in the 20th-century philosophy.
Syllabus
  • 1. The general characteristic of the Enlightenment
  • 2. Aims and ideals of the Enlightenment
  • 3. Outline of the history of the Enlightenment
  • 4. The English Deism
  • 5. Political Philosophy: Montesquieu
  • 6. Epistemology: Condillac
  • 7. Epistemology: The Encyclopedy, D'Alembert
  • 8. Ontology: Diderot
  • 9. Metaphysics: Voltaire
  • 10. Ontology: The materialists and the atheists
  • 11. Philosophy of History - Condorcet, Kant
  • 12. Philosophy of Nature - Buffon
Literature
    required literature
  • Filosofie 17. a 18. století. Edited by Emerich Coreth - Harald Schöndorf - David Mik. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002, 310 s. ISBN 80-7182-119-5. info
    not specified
  • RÖD, Wolfgang. Novověká filosofie. Translated by Jindřich Karásek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004, 579 s. ISBN 8072981099. info
  • HALADA, Jan. Osvícenství - věk rozumu. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 342 s. ISBN 8071763470. URL info
  • ISRAEL, Jonathan Irvine. Radical enlightenment : philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xvi, 810 s. ISBN 0-19-820608-9. info
  • ISRAEL, Jonathan I. Radical enlightenment : philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xvi, 810. ISBN 9780199254569. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, reading
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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