FPF:UBKKBK0012 Filozofie 2 - Course Information
UBKKBK0012 Filozofie 2
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- Compulsory, 12p.
- 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
- Library Science (programme FPF, KNIH-bc)
- Course objectives
- The subject of Philosophy II is aimed at acquainting students with modern and contemporary European philosophical tradition, beginning with the rejection of the so-called speculative or dark medieval philosophy and the inclination to methods and justification of their own natural sciences or mathematics. This movement of modern philosophy will then be observed on several levels - epistemological, anthropological and political, with reference to their interconnectedness. At the end of the course, students will be introduced to some of the more influential philosophical strategies of the last century.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be acquainted with the modern tradition of Western philosophy.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction - repetition of selected chapters of the subject Philosophy I, acquaintance with compulsory and recommended literature. 2. Specifics of modern philosophy - turn to the subject, political power, philosophy as a system 3. Continental rationalism - its starting points, assumptions and representatives (R. Descartes, B. Spinoza, G. W. Leibniz) 4. British empiricism - its starting points, assumptions and representatives (F. Bacon, T. Hobbes, J. Locke, D. Hume) 5. I. Kant - Kant's epistemology, ethics and political theory 6. German idealism and Marxism - J. G. F. Hegel and his conception of history, state and individual, Marx's conception of history and individual 7. Utilitarianism - J. Bentham and J. S. Mill 8. Pragmatism - Ch. Peirce, W. James, J. Dewey 9. Positivism - Vienna Circle 10. E. Husserl - bases of phenomenology 11. M. Heidegger - existence and residence, fundamental ontology and Heidegger's hermeneutics 12. Important European emigrants - L. Strauss, H. Arendtová and E. Kantorowicz 13. Philosophy of language - turn to language.
- Literature
- required literature
- RÖD, W. Německá klasická filosofie I. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2015.
- PEREGRIN, J. Kapitoly z analytické filosofie. Praha: Filosofia, 2005.
- JAESCHKE, W. – Arndt, A. Německá klasická filosofie II. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2015.
- LOCKE, J. Esej o lidském chápání. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2012.
- HOBBES, T. Leviathan. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2015.
- ARENDTOVÁ, H. Původ totalitarismu. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2013.
- recommended literature
- DESCARTES, R. Meditace o první filosofii. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2003.
- RÖD, W. Novověká filosofie II. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004.
- HEIDEGGER, M. Bytí a čas. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2018.
- RÖD, W. Novověká filosofie I. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2001.
- Teaching methods
- lectures, class discussion
- Assessment methods
- Attendance at seminars (75%). Active approach. Paper (presentation of own interpretation of the given text). Oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hod/sem.
- Teacher's information
- none
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2025, recent)
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