FF:PG21A31 Philosophy II - Course Information
PG21A31 Philosophy II
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Mgr. Zdeňka Jastrzembská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Jan Zouhar, CSc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Petr Novotný, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ivana Klusáková
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- PG12A22 Philosophy I || PGJ12A22 Philosophy I
Completion of the course 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.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- 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
- BLECHA, Ivan. Filosofie. 3. opr. a rozš. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 1998, 239 s. ISBN 80-7182-069-5. info
- PEREGRIN, Jaroslav. Filozofie pro normální lidi. Illustrated by Luboš Bokštefl. Praha: Dokořán, 2008, 142 stran. ISBN 9788073631925. info
- STÖRIG, Hans Joachim. Malé dějiny filosofie [Zvon, 1996]. Translated by Petr Rezek - Miroslav Petříček - Karel Šprunk. 5. vyd. Praha: Zvon, 1996, 559 s. ISBN 80-7113-175-X. info
- Teaching methods
- The course has a form of lecture.
- Assessment methods
- Online test consisting of 20 closed questions focusing on themes presented during lectures. Minimum pass level 60%.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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