UVSRPVK050 Philosophy for PA

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jiří Sedláček
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – 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 teaching deepens knowledge of philosophy - the most important philosophical concepts, categories, issues, disciplines and methods are explained on the basis of their change in the course of history of philosophical thinking. The special focus is put on issues relation to philosophical anthropology and to social dimension of the man: problems of social philosophy as philosophy of relations between individual and society and philosophy of social order, relations of social philosophy to politics, ideology, law and ethics. Main aim of the course is that the students adopt elementary apparatus of philosophy, learn the means of solution of important philosophical questions and orient in principal issue of philosophical anthropology and social philosophy.
Syllabus
  • 1. Subject of philosophy, division of philosophy, origin of philosophy
    2. Pre-Socrates' philosophy
    3. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
    4. Philosophy of Hellenistic period
    5. Patristic and scholasticism
    6. Renaissance philosophy, modern philosophy, enlightenment
    7. German classical philosophy: I. Kant, G.W. F. Hegel
    8. Marxism and Neo-Marxism
    9. Positivism and neo-positivism
    10. Irrationalism and philosophy of life
    11. Phenomenology and existentialism
    12. Philosophical anthropology
    13. Philosophy of post-modernity
Literature
    required literature
  • CORETH, E. Filosofie 20. století. Olomouc: Olomouc., 2006. info
  • TRETERA, I. Nástin dějin evropského myšlení. Praha: Paseka, 1999. info
  • BLECHA, I. Filosofie. Olomouc: Nakl. Olomouc, 1998. info
  • SOKOL, J. Malá filosofie člověka a Slovník filosofických pojmů. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1998. info
  • STÖRIG, H. J. Malé dějiny filozofie. Praha: Zvon, 1993. ISBN 80-7113-058-3. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture
Assessment methods
Didactic test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 9 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
The written test will verify if the student have adopted the principal concept apparatus of philosophy, solution of important philosophical questions of the most important directions and philosophers in the whole course of the history of philosophy and orientation in principal issue of philosophical anthropology and social philosophy.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2017, Winter 2018.
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