FF:HIAb10 History of ideas - Course Information
HIAb10 History of ideas
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Tomáš Borovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiří Němec, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Tomáš Borovský, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- HIAb01II Proseminar II
- 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 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- History (programme FF, B-HI_) (3)
- Course objectives
- The aim of this course is to introduce students to development and major changes in social construction of political order in the European history from Ancient to the 20th Century. Students will recognize important authors and works of political philosophy and their critics (par example Plato, Republic and K. R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Eenemies).
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to distinguish major changes in social construction of political order in the European history and to monitor continuity and discontinuity of political concepts and political ideologies in a long historical perspective.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction (Concepts, Terminology)
- 2. Ancient Thinking (Plato, Aristotle)
- 3. Christian Concept of the World (Augustine)
- 4. Republican Thinking of the Middle Ages (Marsilius of Padua)
- 5. Man and State in the Renaissance (Machiavelli)
- 6. Idea of Sovereignty (Hobbes)
- 7. Social Contract and the Separation of Powers (Locke)
- 8. The Birth of Political Ideologies: Liberalism (Smith)
- 9. The Birth of Political Ideologies: Conservatism (Burke)
- 10. The Birth of Political Ideologies: Socialism (Marx)
- 11. The Birth of Political Ideologies: Nationalism and Racism (Gobineau)
- 12. Cultural Pessimism in the 20th Century (Spengler)
- 13. Critical Humanism (Arendtová)
- Literature
- required literature
- BRUNSCHVICG, Léon. Evropský duch. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2000, 231 s. ISBN 8070214120. info
- recommended literature
- BURKE, Peter. Společnost a vědění. Translated by Martin Pokorný. První české vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2013, 405 stran. ISBN 9788024620466. info
- Dějiny politického myšlení. Edited by Vilém Herold - Ivan Müller - Aleš Havlíček. První vydání. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2011, 519 stran. ISBN 9788074144349. info
- Dějiny politického myšlení. Edited by Vilém Herold - Ivan Müller - Aleš Havlíček. První vydání. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2011, 647 stran. ISBN 9788074143908. info
- BURKE, Peter. Společnost a vědění. Translated by Martin Pokorný. 1. české vyd. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2007, 304 s. ISBN 9788024613192. info
- Filosofie 20. století. Edited by Emerich Coreth, Translated by Břetislav Horyna. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2006, 255 s. ISBN 8071822094. info
- KOYRÉ, Alexandre. Od uzavřeného světa k nekonečnému vesmíru. Translated by Petr Horák. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2004, 261 s. ISBN 8070215860. info
- CORETH, Emerich, Peter EHLEN and Josef SCHMIDT. Filosofie 19. století. Translated by David Mik. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2003, 223 s. ISBN 8071821578. info
- BURROW, J. W. Krize rozumu : evropské myšlení 1848-1914. Translated by Tomáš Suchomel. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury (CDK), 2003, 295 s. ISBN 807325025X. info
- CORETH, Emerich and Harald SCHÖNDORF. Filosofie 17. a 18. století. Translated by David Mik. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002, 310 s. ISBN 8071821195. info
- Filosofie 17. a 18. století. Edited by Emerich Coreth - Harald Schöndorf - David Mik. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002, 310 s. ISBN 80-7182-119-5. info
- Středověká filosofie. Edited by Richard Heinzmann, Translated by Břetislav Horyna. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002, 351 s. ISBN 8071821055. info
- Antická filosofie. Edited by Friedo Ricken - David Mik. 2. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 1999, 230 s. ISBN 80-7182-134-9. info
- BRAGUE, Rémi. Evropa, římská cesta. 1. vyd. V Praze: Pedagogická fakulta UK, 1994, 134 s. info
- Politická filosofie 20. století. Edited by Karl Ballestrem - Hennig Ottmann, Translated by Alena Bakešová. 1. vyd. Praha: ISE, 1993, 302 s. ISBN 80-85241-52-8. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures with analysis of texts and discussions.
- Assessment methods
- Oral examination in the form of a discussion over the work of a selected author.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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