FF:PH0194 Progress, curiosity and mechan - Course Information

PH0194 Progress, curiosity and mechanicism in the early modern period

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Daniel Špelda, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Mon 15:50–17:25 A11

Prerequisites (in Czech)

PH_PoZ Qualifying Exam. in Phil. || PROGRAM(N-PH) || PROGRAM(N-HS) || PROGRAM(N-SS) || PROGRAM(N-MA)

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 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The lecture course provides an overview of such categories of the early modern thought, which are rarely introduced in detail in the history of philosophy. This is the concept of progress, the concept of theoretical curiosity and the concept of mechanicism. The course presents their origin, history, reasons and consequences of their refusal or enforcement. Attention is centered on works of famous modern philosophers (Bacon, Descartes, Locke) and works of modern scientists (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton). The lecture course is divided into thirds, each of which deals with one category.
After completing the course the students will have the following competences: - will be able to explain the importance of categories of progress, theoretical curiosity and mechanicism in the early modern thought; - understand their origin and history; - assess the consequences of their refusal or enforcement.

Syllabus

• 1. The concept of early modern age and its features in history of philosophy
• 2. The Renaissance concept of Nature
• 3. Mechanism in ontology
• 4. Mechanism in the theory of sensation
• 5. Mechanism and hypotheses
• 6. Condemnation of curiosity in the Classical Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
• 7. The legitimacy of curiosity in the early modern age
• 8. The problems of traditional exposition of the origin of the idea of progress
• 9. The Idea of progress in the Classical Antiquity, in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance
• 10. The idea of finite progress
• 11. Developing of the instruments of preliminarity
• 12. The idea of infinite progress

Literature

• The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, ed. K. Haakonsen, 2 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006
• Blumenberg, H., Die Legitimität der Neuzeit. Erneuerte Ausgabe, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 1996
• The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, ed. D. Garber – M. Ayers, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998
• Blumenberg, H., Die Genesis der kopernikanischen Welt, Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp 31996
• GAUKROGER, Stephen. The emergence of a scientific culture : science and the shaping of modernity, 1210-1685. First published. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, ix, 563. ISBN 9780199550012. info
• RÖD, Wolfgang. Novověká filosofie. Translated by Jindřich Karásek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004, 579 s. ISBN 8072981099. info

Teaching methods (in Czech)

Přednášky, diskuse

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Písemný test

Language of instruction

Czech

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