VV029 Social Interests and Moral Codes in Greek Antiquity

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:50 B007
Prerequisites
The course of lectures counts with an interest of the participant in personal and all-human values in our life.
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
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Course objectives
This subject is rather special in its connecting of moral issues with the political ones; the lecturer hopes it has been done adequately. It has been conceived on the basis of the experience of antique Greece, and thus, on simpler models, it may contribute to a better orientation in our contemporary world. As it is a historically based experience, it also presents a certain astonishment over the changeability of the majority of categories here applied.
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?
Literature
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Assessment methods
2 credits after both regularly attending the classes and submitting 1 essay
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2006.
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