OVRC_F1 Plilosophy 1

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Mgr. Erika Vonková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Mgr. Erika Vonková
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jitka Autratová
Supplier department: Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Fri 29. 9. 9:00–11:50 učebna 21, Fri 13. 10. 10:00–12:50 učebna 38, Fri 20. 10. 12:00–14:50 učebna 78
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
Course objectives
The students will meet the most important characters and problems of ancient philosophy in this lecture from Thales to novoplatonism, undestand the key moments of modern metaphysics, epistemology and methodology.
Learning outcomes
After the completion of the course, students should be able to understant the basic problems; describe the thining of the most important philosophers in the period from Thales to novoplatonism and undestand the key moments of modern metaphysics, epistemology and methodology, explain the basic principles of great philosophical conceptions of the era, interpret the thoughts and reasons of major modern philosophers, interpret selected philosophical texts.
Syllabus
  • 1. What is Philosophy. Astonoshment. Anxietz. Philosophical Questions 2. Philosophers of Miletos. Pythagoras. 3. Herakleitos {What is I?] versus Parmenides 4. Socrates versus Sofistes [Gnoseology and Ethics] 5.Platon [Picture of man] 6. Aristoteles and Platon [New Questions, new Answer] 7. Helenism: Basic Question and her Method of Solution] 8. Novoplatonism versus Christianity? 9. F. Bacon: Philosophy and modern science 10. R. Descartes: Way to Cogito ergo sum 11. J. Spinoza: Pantheism. W. Leibniz: Two worlds 12. J. Locke: His epistemiology 13. G. Berkeley: His relation to Locke 14. D. Hume: His Agnosticism 15. I. Kant: His turn to subjekt 16. G. F. Hegel: Arbitrary idealism
Literature
    required literature
  • https://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2076
  • TRETERA, Ivo. Nástin dějin evropského myšlení : (od Thaleta k Rousseauovi). 1. vyd. Praha: COWI, 1996, 330 s. ISBN 8090158846. info
  • SCRUTON, Roger. Krátke dejiny novovekej filozofie : od Descarta po Wittgensteina. Translated by Eva Šimečková. Bratislava: Archa, 1991, 445 s. ISBN 8071150231. info
    not specified
  • The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, ed. D. Garber – M. Ayers, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998
Teaching methods (in Czech)
konzultace
Assessment methods
1) Oral exam at the end of the course. Students must prove knowledge of the relevant literature and lectures. 2) Final term paper-extent 13 pages. In the term paper students demonstrate that they are able to work with selected philosophical texts, understand selected philosophical texts, interpret selected philosophical texts on the bases of the knowledge obtained in the course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: konzultace 17 hod.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2022.
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