FF:PB21PA24 Philosophy II - Course Information
PB21PA24 Philosophy II
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jiří Svoboda, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Milan Pol, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková - Timetable
- Tue 15:00–16:35 C33
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- PB12JA15 Philosophy I
- 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 46 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/46, only registered: 0/46, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/46 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Education and Counselling (programme FF, B-PD)
- Course objectives
- Main objective of the course is to understand the evolution of philosophical thought and to interpret selected philosophical texts on the basis of knowledge obtained in the course
- Syllabus
- Philosophy II Selected issues of the history of European philosophy: Antique philosophy (philosophers before Socrates, anthropological turn; Socrates and sophists, systemic philosophers; Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy), Patristics and scholastics (St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, dispute over universals), Renaissance philosophy (natural philosophy, social philosophy; Machiavelli, religious reformation philosophy), Modern philosophy (rationalism; Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, empirism; Bacon, Locke, Hume), Enlightenment (Voltaire, Rousseau), German classical idealism (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel), Rise of marxism, Pozitivism (Comte, Mill, Spencer), Irrationalism, voluntarism, life philosophy (Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bergson), 20th-century philosophy (phenomenology, neopozitivism, existentialism, structuralism, postmodernism).
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- The course is taught as both lectures and seminars. Semestral reading of covered educational texts.
- Assessment methods
- The course has a form of lecture and ends with a written exam (test).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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