FVP:FVPAA009 Philosophy - Course Information

FVPAA009 Philosophy

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 8 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.
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

• Předměty pro zahraniční studenty (programme FVP, 1583)

Course objectives

The teaching deepens knowledge of philosophy - the most important philosophical concepts, categories, issues, disciplines and methods are explained based on 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. The final aim of the course is to acquaint students with the development of philosophy 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.). 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. The students obtain an overview of the major developments of socio-philosophical concepts. They will become familiar with the ties that exist between the modern philosophical conceptions of society and with its sources. On this basis, they will be able to derive the consequences of each of the basic philosophical concepts of the society for the significance of public administration, which will provide them with basic tools to ensure that they consider not only the objectives of the civil society, but also the objectives of social strategies in relation to their own life. 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. In this context, they will be able to understand the position of public administration in both the theoretical context of science and in the practical context of the significance of actions. 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. They will also be able to describe the position and importance of public administration within social sciences.

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction to Philosophy term philosophy, subject of philosophy
  2. Philosophical discipline I fundamental problems of metaphysics and Noetics, fundamental questions
  3. Philosophical discipline II basic problems of philosophical anthropology and psychology
  4. Philosophical discipline III basic problems of ethics and political philosophy
  5. Modern Age transformation of man's place in society the birth of the State
  6. Basic socio-philosophical concept of the 17th and 18th centuries. I. mechanistic conception of man and the state at T. Hobbes and Descartes, instrumentalization of law, relationship between the state and individuals legality by Hobbes and natural law at J. Locke
  7. Basic socio-philosophical concept of the 17th and 18th centuries. II B. Spinoza and J. J. Rousseau
  8. Modern period for the completion of Kant freedom as statist principle, the concept of autonomous and heteronomous morality, the categorical imperative and its role in ethics and political philosophy
  9. Selected philosophical schools of the 19th century. and implications for the understanding of man in society positivism, utilitarianism, Marxism
  10. Critical Theory and Habermas critique of modern rationality of the resulting impact on individuals and the possibility of a positive shaping of society
  11. Liberal thinking of the 20th century. F. A. Hayek, J. Rawls, R. Nozick; British and continental motifs liberalism of the 20th century
  12. Communitarianism A. MacIntyre, Ch. Taylor, M. Sandel; Return to the nature of man and his polemic with J. Rawls
  

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

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