PdF:SZ1037a Introduction to Philosophy - Course Information
SZ1037a Introduction to Philosophy
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- 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 - Prerequisites
- SUBJECT IS NOT TEACHING IN SEMESTER AUTUMN 2018 Completion of a course: written test.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 1 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/1, only registered: 0/1 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (eng.) (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course students should be able to: understand and interpret selected historical ways of approaching and grasping the term "philosophy", that influence our ways of thinking and the people's views of the world and human existence in the 21st Century.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course students should be able to: understand and interpret selected historical ways of approaching and grasping the term "philosophy", that influence our ways of thinking and the people's views of the world and human existence in the 21st Century.
- Syllabus
- 1. Philosophy: What Is IT ? 2. Herakleitos: What Is "I" ? 3. Plato: Picture Of Man. 4. Helenism: Basic Question. 5. R. Descartes: Way To " Cogito, ergo sum". 6. J. Locke: His Epistemology. 7. G. Berkeley: His Relation To Locke. 8. D. Hume: His Agnosticism. 9. I. Kant: His Turn To Subject. 10.A. Schopenhauer: Voluntarism. 11.F. Nietzsche: Nihilism. 12.Existencialism In France - J. P. Sartre, A. Camus
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Cumming, R. D. The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sarter. New York: Random House, 1965.
- Sarter, Jean-Paul. Nausea. Transl. by Robert Baldick. London: Penguin Books, 1963.
- Tredennick, Hugh. Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. West Drayton: Penguin Books, 1954
- POPKIN, Richard H. and Avrum STROLL. Philosophy made simple. 2nd ed., rev. New York: Broadway Books, 1993, xv, 332. ISBN 0385425333. info
- KENNY, Anthony. The God of the philosophers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979, vii, 135. ISBN 0198249683. info
- DURANT, Will. The story of philosophy : the lives and opinions of the greater philosophers. London: Ernest Benn, 1929, xiii, 592. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture
- Assessment methods
- Completion of a course: written test. 15 out of 20 questions correct.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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