FI:V029 Social Interests and Moral Cod

V029 Social Interests and Moral Codes in Greek Antiquity

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1998

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.

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

Preliminarily about the "heritage" of Greek Antiquity.
The act of settling down (the heritage of the Bronze Era). The mythical ("dark") time and its aristocratic ethos. The archaic roots of the origin of the "polis". The Spartan and the Athenian solutions (what is "honour", "virtue", "self-assertion" in a society).
Classical time, or also about "hegemony", peculiarities of "democracy" and its criticism. (Herodotus, Thucydides. The Athens of Pericles, the Peloponnesian Wars. Xenophon. Plato's double society model.)
The end of Greek independence and the decline of the polis, or the escape into individualism. Ethics as politics? (Aristotle.) The Socratic Schools.
Hellenism. (Within the imperial boundaries the "Epicurean garden" and a "Stoic calmness".)
A "sociology of morals" -- is'nt it another reductionism and relativism?

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000.