UCJITBK400 Philosophy

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Slováček, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Supplier department: 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
  • Italian (programme FPF, ITAL-bpk)
Course objectives
The subject Philosophy is focused on acquainting students with the Western pre-modern philosophical tradition. The scope of the subject is then determined primarily problematically, with the emphasis of lectures and seminars being placed on changes within philosophical thinking. In connection with well-known names from the history of philosophy, basic philosophical problems (epistemological, ontological, ethical and political) and changes in the assumptions on the basis of which these problems were solved will be presented. The accompanying aim of the subject will also be to highlight the importance of the philosophical tradition for what could be understood as European culture.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to identify the basic features in the syllabus of the above-mentioned issues; They can characterize the fundamental differences between different philosophical "strategies". Students will acquire a basic overview of the history of philosophy.
Syllabus
  • Subject topics: 1. The first philosophers - the beginnings of philosophy, the relationship between philosophy (logus) and myth 2. The Sophists - the turn to man, the relationship between nature (physis) and laws (nomoi), the possibilities of knowledge 3. Socrates - elenchos as a tool for philosophizing, care for the soul as an ethical and political imperative 4. Plato - Plato's theory of ideas and its relation to philosophical anthropology and politics 5. Aristotle - basic notes on theoretical and practical sciences 6. Philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period - Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynics, changing the role of philosophy outside the context Greek polis 7. Philosophia togata - the reception of Greek philosophy in the Roman context, the clash of Greek and Roman virtues 8. The beginnings of Christian philosophy - forms of the relationship of Christian thinkers to Greek philosophy, the relationship between faith and reason 9. Aurelius Augustinus - Augustine's metaphysics, anthropology and political philosophy 10 Arabic medieval philosophy - translatio studiorum, the journey of Aristotle's work to the Latin West and the consequences of its mediated reception 11. Tomáš Ak vinský - metaphysics, anthropology and political philosophy, Thomistic tradition 12th-13th century Renaissance philosophy - the transition between the Middle Ages and the modern age, analogy as a Renaissance epistemological paradigm
Literature
    required literature
  • KIRK, G., RAVEN, J. E., SCHOFIELD, M. Předsókratovští filosofové 2. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2004. ISBN 80-7298-110-2. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Processing of the specified topic.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: 2h/s/sem.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 2h/s/sem.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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