FF:LJMgrB07 The Classical Philosophy I - Course Information

LJMgrB07 The Classical Philosophy I

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Antonín Bartoněk, DrSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová

Timetable

Tue 11:40–13:15 30

Prerequisites

Basic ability to understand Latin and Greek philosophical Text. Priority to attend this course will be granted for students of M.A. study-programme.

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

• Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI)
• Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
• Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI)
• Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
• Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI)
• Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
• Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, M-FI)
• Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, M-HS)
• Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
• Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Classical Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-HS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Latin Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Modern Greek Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS3)

Course objectives

During the course of Classical Philosophy I. will students learn of the backgrounds of Greek philosophy and it's evolution from the beginnings in Miletos till the teaching and writing of Plato. The stress will be laid not only on lives and works of illustrious philosophers, but on evolution on philosophical thinking and on literar-critical analysis of the works too.

Syllabus

• 1. Beginnings of the Greek Philosophy, it's relationship to myth. 2. Presocratical philosophy: a) old physicists; b) Pythagoras; c) School of Elea; d) young physicists. 3. Sofists and atropological "revolution" in Greek philosophy. 4. Socrates. Socratical schools. 5. Plato: Life and work.

Literature

• HÉSIODOS. Hesiodi Theogonia ; Opera et dies ; Scutum. Edited by Hésiodos - Friedrich Solmsen - Reinhold Merkelbach - M. L. West. Ed. 3. Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1990, xxix, 246. ISBN 0198140711. info
• KIRK, G. S., John E. RAVEN and Malcolm SCHOFIELD. Die vorsokratischen Philosophen :Einführung, Texte und Kommentare. Translated by Karlheinz Hülser. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1994, xxii, 560. ISBN 3-476-00959-9. info
• Zlomky předsokratovských myslitelů. Translated by Karel Svoboda. Vyd. 2. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1962, 200 s. URL info
• Snell, B. (ed. et comm.). Leben und Meinungen der Seiben Weisen. München: Heimeran Verlag, 1971, 4. ed.
• PATOČKA, Jan. Nejstarší řecká filosofie : filosofie v předklasickém údobí před sofistikou a Sókratem : přednášky z antické filosofie. Vydání první. V Praze: Vyšehrad, 1996, 359 stran. ISBN 8070211954. info
• HUSSEY, Edward. Presokratici. Praha: Rezek, 1997, 213 s. ISBN 80-86027-07-4. info
• PATOČKA, Jan. Sókratés :přednášky z antické filosofie. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991, 158 s. ISBN 8004243830. info
• PATOČKA, Jan. Platon : přednášky z antické filosofie. 1. vyd. Praha: SPN, 1992, 379 s. info
• Platónovy spisy [Oikoumené]. Praha: Oikoumené, 1996. info
• PLATÓN. Platonis scripta Graeca omnia. ed. I. Bekker. Londinii, 1826. info
• MACHOVEC, Dušan. Dějiny antické filozofie. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H a H, 1993, 187 s. ISBN 80-85467-62-3. info
• RICKEN, Friedo. Antická filosofie [Ricken, 1999] : Philosophie der Antike (Orig.). Translated by David Mik. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Olomouc, 1999, 230 s. ISBN 80-7182-092-X. info
• VERNANT, Jean-Pierre. Počátky řeckého myšlení. Translated by Miloš Rejchrt. 2. opr. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1995, 87 s. ISBN 80-85241-45-5. info
• VERNANT, Jean-Pierre. Vesmír, bohové, lidé : nejstarší řecké mýty. Translated by Zuzana Dlabalová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Paseka, 2001, 183 s. ISBN 8071853445. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Studenti v závěru kurzu napíší krátkou esej na širší zadané téma.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• LJMgrB08 The Classical Greek Philosophy

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0.
Credit evaluation note: Pro studenty pětiletého magisterského studia hodnoceno počtem kreditů 4.

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