FF:ESA281 The Idea of Beauty in Plato - Course Information
ESA281 The Idea of Beauty in Plato - seminar
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Mgr. Martin Cajthaml, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová - Timetable
- Tue 13:20–14:55 B23
- 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
- there are 18 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- It is the aim of this seminar to make students familiar with texts of Plato in which the Idea of Beauty is dealt with. Special attemtnion will be given to the dialogue Symposium.
- Syllabus
- General introduction to Symposium. Reading and interpretation of the different parts of the dialogue. Presentation and discussion of the seminar papers.
- Literature
- PLATÓN. Symposion. Translated by František Novotný. 3., opr. vyd. Praha: Institut pro stedoevropskou kulturu a politiku, 1993, 80 s. ISBN 80-85241-31-5. info
- Platone, Simposio, a cura di Giovanni Reale, Mondadori, 2001.
- Gerhard Krüger, Einsicht und Leidenschaft, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1983
- Plato, Symposium, introduction and translation of Christopher Gill, London: Penguin Books 1999.
- - K.J. Dover, Greek homosexuality, Harvard University Press, 1978.
- - Charles H. Kahn, “Plato’s Theory of Desire”, Revue of Metaphysics 1987/88 XLI, p. 77-103.
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- seminární práce, min. 5 normostran (1800 znaků na stranu včetně prázdných znaků)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Information on completion of the course: Obecné podmínky ukončování kursů Semináře estetiky
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
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