UPPVIK052 Selected Chapters from the History of Philosophy

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2021
Extent and Intensity
6/0/0. 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 Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: PhDr. Edita Ondřejová, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(K)
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Course objectives
The Selected Chapters from the History of Philosophy course aims to acquaint students with the specifics of philosophical questioning in comparison with other sciences and to outline the main trends and accent changes in the development of European philosophy. Along with this, the aim of the course is to characterize basic philosophical disciplines (metaphysics, physics, epistemology, philosophical psychology, anthropology, ethics, political philosophy), their basic problems and basic ways of answering their respective questions in a historically philosophical horizon. The final aim of the course is to acquaint students with the development of philosophy since the 17th century in the aspect of the issues of man in society and with the main concepts it works with (social contract, state, natural law, legality, legitimacy, freedom, utilitarianism, alienation, totalitarianism, justice, social justice, etc.). Study Outcomes: Professional Knowledge: The students obtain an overview of philosophy and philosophical view of the world, they will understand its specific position among other fields of study. Students will be able to define the basic problem areas of philosophy and its basic discipline. Students obtain an overview of the major developments of socio-philosophical concepts from the 17th century to the present. They will become familiar with the ties that exist between the modern philosophical conceptions of society and its sources. Professional Skills: The students will be able to define the specificity of philosophy and its disciplines. They will further understand the historical variability of the content, focus and ways of asking fundamental questions of individual disciplines. Students will be able to explain and describe basic philosophical concepts of the society and the issues associated with them. They will also understand the theoretical and contemporary cross-compliance of the basic concepts governing the considerations of the social situation of man. Competences: Students understand the concept of philosophy, basic philosophical concepts and their position in various philosophical disciplines. After finishing the course, students will be familiar with the historical and philosophical development of social issues since the 17th century.
Syllabus
  • 1. Life in Ancient Greece - Greek philosophy as a step out of the myth; the human
  • and society in ancient Greece 2. Reception of Greek thought and its role in the Empire (philosophy within the Roman Empire)
  • 3. The beginnings of Christian Europe - Christian transformation of the concept of the individual and society, the relationship between faith and reason
  • 4. Reason and faith + two sources of medieval knowledge and their relationship
  • 5. Transformations of medieval thinking - Aristotle’s journeys to the Latin West, Jewish and Muslim mediators and translators
  • 6. The significance of the Renaissance and humanism in European history
  • 7. Modern scientific paradigm shift - early modern turn to the human
  • 8. Enlightenment and anthropological optimism
  • 9. Philosophies and ideologies of the 19th century - their role in the changing European society
  • 10. Interwar Europe - critique of modernity
  • 11. Famous European immigrants - H. Arendt, L. Strauss.
  • 12. Europe between Jürgen Habermas and C. Schmitt
Language of instruction
English
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