UVSSPUP001 Základy filozofie

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Ing. Lucie Kamrádová, Ph.D.
Timetable
Thu 8:05–9:40 C312, except Thu 26. 9., except Thu 3. 10., except Thu 31. 10., except Thu 14. 11. ; and Thu 26. 9. 7:15–8:50 C312, Thu 3. 10. 8:05–9:40 C308, Thu 31. 10. 8:05–9:40 C308, Thu 14. 11. 8:05–9:40 C205
Prerequisites
The subject Fundamentals of Philosophy focuses on the issues of the Western philosophical tradition and its transformations. Despite this basic point of view, it will not only deal with the history of philosophy, but will also outline the issues of practical philosophy, including its main problems, thereby supporting students in the field with appropriate criticality and sensitivity. Specifically, however, this means that the subject of philosophy will focus on the space in which philosophical anthropology, political philosophy and, to a certain extent, ethics meet. For this reason, problems that belong more to ontology (metaphysics) and noetics will necessarily play a rather marginal role.
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The subject Fundamentals of Philosophy focuses on the issues of the Western philosophical tradition and its transformations. Despite this basic point of view, it will not only deal with the history of philosophy, but will also outline the issues of practical philosophy, including its main problems, thereby supporting students in the field with appropriate criticality and sensitivity. Specifically, however, this means that the subject of philosophy will focus on the space in which philosophical anthropology, political philosophy and, to a certain extent, ethics meet. For this reason, problems that belong more to ontology (metaphysics) and noetics will necessarily play a rather marginal role.
Learning outcomes
Students will know what philosophy is. And not only on the basis of external familiarity, but on the basis of familiarity with the problems (located mainly on the border of philosophical anthropology, political philosophy and ethics) and especially the development of these problems and on the basis of studying the changes in the responses to these problems.
Syllabus
  • 1. Life in Ancient Greece - Greek philosophy as a step out of myth, man and society in Ancient Greece, Ancient Philosophy I - sophists, dramatists and pluralistic ethics
  • 2. Reception of Greek thought and its role in the empire (philosophy within the Roman Empire), Ancient Philosophy III - Aristotle's systematization of pluralistic practical philosophy, ethics of virtues
  • 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 thought - Aristotle's journeys to the Latin West, Jewish and Muslim intermediaries and translators
  • 6. The significance of the Renaissance and humanism in European history
  • 7. Modern change of the scientific paradigm - the modern turn to man
  • 8. The Enlightenment and its anthropological optimism
  • 9. Philosophy and ideology of the 19th century - their role in the changing European society
  • 10. Interwar Europe - a critique of modernity
  • 11. Famous European emigrants - H. Arendt, L. Strauss
  • 12. Europe between Jürgen Habermas and C. Schmitt
  • 13. M. Nussbaum and pluralistic ethics
Literature
    required literature
  • COPLESTONE, F. Ch. Dějiny filozofie II. Olomouc: Refugium Velehrad Roma, 2016
  • COPLESTONE, F. Ch. Dějiny filozofie V. Olomouc: Refugium Velehrad Roma, 2020
  • COPLESTONE, F. Ch. Dějiny filozofie III. Olomouc: Refugium Velehrad Roma, 2017
  • SLOVÁČEK, P. Základy filozofie. Opava: Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, 2017. Dostupné z: https://elearning.slu.cz/course/view.php?id=821
  • COPLESTONE, F. Ch. Dějiny filozofie IV. Olomouc: Refugium Velehrad Roma, 2018
  • COPLESTONE, F. Ch. Dějiny filozofie I. Olomouc: Refugium Velehrad Roma, 2014.
    recommended literature
  • LOCKE, J. Esej o lidském chápání. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2012
  • HEIDEGGER, M. Bytí a čas. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2018
  • ARISTOTELÉS Etika Níkomachova. Praha: Rezek, 1996
  • HOBBES, T. Leviathan. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2015
  • DESCARTES, R. Meditace o první filosofii. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2003
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Wrtitten examine.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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