UPPVBK004 Philosophy for SP

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2021
Extent and Intensity
9/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
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.
Timetable
Fri 1. 10. 12:15–13:50 C311, Fri 15. 10. 14:45–16:20 C311, Fri 19. 11. 12:15–14:40 C311, Fri 3. 12. 8:55–10:30 C311
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(K)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The first aim of the subject Philosophy is to aknowledge students with the peculiarities of philosophical questioning in comparison with other partial sciences and to mark main developmental trends or changes of accent in the history of the western philosophy. The second aim is to define a characterise basic philosophical disciplines (metaphysics, physics, noetics, philosophical psychology, anthropology, etics, political philosophy), their basic problems and of course the ways these questions are answered in the course of the history of western philosophy. The last aim is to aknowledge students with the development of modern western philosophy sice 17th century from the aspect of the place of man in society togethert with main concepts she worked with (contract social, state, natural law, legality, legitimity, freedom, instrumentalization, etc.).
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to philosophy, the concept of philosophy, the subject of philosphy.
    2. Philosophical disciplines I basic problems of metaphysics and noetics, basic questions;
    3. Philosophical disciplines II basic problems of philosophical anthropology and psychology;
    4. Philosophical disciplines III basic problems of ethics adn political philosophy;
    5. The modern change of the place of man and the birth of state;
    6. Basic political-philosophical conception of the 17th and 18th century I the mechanistic conception of the man and the state by Descartes, Hobbes; the instrumentalization of the state, the relation of the state and individual, legality by Hobbes and natural law by Locke;
    7. Basic political-philosophical conception of the 17th and 18th century I B. Spinoza and J. J. Rousseau;
    8. The modern finalization by I. Kant, the freedom as state constitutive principle, the conception of autonomical and heteronomical ethics, categorical imperative ind its role in polical philosophy and ethics.;
    9. Chosen philosophical schools of the 19th century ind their consequences for the understanding of the man in society positivism, marxism, utilitarism, marxism.
    10. Critical theory and J. Habermas the critique of modern rationality and its consequences for the individual, the possibility of positive creation of society;
    11. The liberal thinking of the 20. Century F. A. Hayek, J. Rawls, R. Nozick; british and continental motives of liberalism in 20th century.
    12. Communitarianims ? A. MacIntyre, Ch. Taylor, M. Sandel, the return to the nature of man and the polemics with J. Rawls.
Literature
    required literature
  • KIS, J. (ed.). Současná politická filosofie. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997. info
  • POPPER, K. R. Otevřená společnost a její nepřátelé. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 1994. info
  • STÖRIG, H. J. Malé dějiny filozofie. Praha: Zvon, 1993. ISBN 80-7113-058-3. info
  • BALLESTREM, O. Politická filozofie 20. století. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 1993. info
  • BLECHA, I. Základní problémy filozofie. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 1992. ISBN 80-7067-193-9. info
  • STRAUSS, L. What Is Political Philosophy? In: The Journal of Politics 19, 1957. info
    recommended literature
  • HOLZHEY, H. - RŐD, W. Filosofie 19. a 20. stololetí II. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2006. info
  • RÖD, W. Novověká filosofie I: od Francise Bacona po Spinozu. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2006. info
  • RÖD, W. Novověká filosofie II: od Newtona po Rousseaua. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004. info
Assessment methods
Written exam from compulsory literature and lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 9 HOD/SEM.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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