UPPVPP001 Philosophy for SP

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2015
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D.
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
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
The aim of the one semestral course is to acquaint students with some most important names and problems across the spectrum of European philosophical tradition. Because of the limited space of the course the history of philosophy will be presented rather from the systematic and problematic point of view, especially from the anthropological point of view. It means that the the lectures will be concentrated on the philosophical implications of the theory for understanding people and their place in the world. The result of this conception will be an explanation of basic concepts and problems proposed by a particular philosophical approach as its application to human, which is still the main concern of philosophical inquiry. The perspective outlined in such a manner allows students to view recent understanding of human beings as a result of long tradition and evolution. SEMINAR The work in the seminar will be concentrated on the reading of some basic philosophical texts and work with them.
Syllabus
  • 1. Presocratics - stepping out of the myth, the beginningsof European thinking.
    2. Sophist, Socrates and Plato - the discovery of universals, the origin of metaphysics.
    3. Aristotle - basics concepts of his physics, logic, metaphysics and psychology.
    4. Philosophy of the Hellenistic period - epicurenianism, stoicism, scepticism
    5. Mediaeval philosophy I - the philosophy of the Patres.
    6. Mediaeval philosophy II - Thomas Aquinas - the unique unity of tradition, religion and speculation
    7. The Renaissance philosophy - analogism.
    8. Modern philosophy - British empirical and continental rationalistic tradition.
    9. I. Kant - the summit of the turn to the subject.
    10. Basic problems and philosophical direction of the XIX century - Marxism, Positivism, Pragmatism.
    11. Analytic philosophy - the language turn - basic problems and approaches..
    12. Some contemporary ways of thinking - artificial intelligence, bioethics etc.
    SEMINAR
    1. The oldest sources, doxography and the problems with interpretation.
    2. The Socrates question
    3. Aristotles´ De anima (On the soul)
    4. Stoicism and the issue of determinism.
    5. The Augustine´s relation to philosophy and it´s concequences.
    6. Thomas Aquinas and his De ente et essentia as a unique synthesis.
    7. The paradigm shift - scientia humanitatis a humanista.
    8. New Organon - the down of modern philosophy.
    9. Ethical consequences of Kant´s philosophy.
    10. Marxistic picture of man and culture - The German Ideology.
    11. Language as a object of philosophical inquiry.
    12. Artificial intelligence as a urgent question.
Literature
    required literature
  • PEREGRIN, J. Kapitoly z analytické filosofie. Praha: Filosofia. ISBN 80-7007-207-5. info
  • HLAVINKA, P. Dějiny filosofie jasně a stručně. Praha: TRITON, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7387-015-7. info
  • STÖRIG, H. J. Malé dějiny filosofie. Kostelní Vydří: Karmelitánské nakladatelství, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7195-206-0. info
  • KRISTELER, P. O. Osm filosofů italské renesance. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7021-832-7. info
  • HOLZHEY, H., RÖD, W. Filosofie 19. a 20. století II. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2006. ISBN 80-7298-178-1. info
  • PETŘÍČEK, M. Úvod do současné filosofie. Praha, 2006. info
  • FLOSS, P. Cesty evropského myšlení, díl I.: Architekti křesťanského, středověkého vědění. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2004. info
  • BLECHA, I. Filosofie. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2004. ISBN 80-7182-147-0. info
  • RÖD, W. Novověká filosofie II. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004. ISBN 80-7298-109-9. info
  • KIRK, G., RAVEN, J. E., SCHOFIELD, M. Předsókratovští filosofové 2. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004. ISBN 80-7298-110-2. info
  • LONG, A. A. Hellenistická filosofie. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2003. ISBN 80-7298-077-7. info
  • ARMSTRONG, A. H. Filosofie pozdní antiky. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2002. ISBN 80-7298-53-X. info
  • LIBERA, de, A. Dějiny středověké filosofie. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2001. ISBN 80-7298-026-2. info
  • RÖD, W. Novověká filosofie I. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2001. ISBN 80-7289-039-4. info
  • GRAESER, A. Řecká filosofie klasického období. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2000. ISBN 80-7298-019-X. info
  • PSTRUŽINA, K. Svět poznávání: k filosofickým základům kognitivní vědy. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2000. ISBN 80-7182-074-1. info
  • PETŘÍČEK, M. Úvod do současné filosofie. Čtvrté, doplněné vydání. Praha: Herrmann a synov, 1997. info
    recommended literature
  • KOLEKTIV. Filosofický slovník. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002. info
  • BLECHA, I. Filosofická čítanka. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2000. ISBN 80-7182-112-8. info
  • FŰRST, M. Filozofie. Praha: Fortuna, 1994. ISBN 80-7168-161-X. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Exam - the content of lectures and literature proposed in the list above; fulfilment of requirments, essay.
- Objectives - to compose an essay (6 pages) concerning any issues encountered during the lectures and seminar.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2011, Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Winter 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Winter 2016, Summer 2017, Winter 2017, Summer 2018, Winter 2018, Summer 2019.
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