Course: Disputations

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Course title Disputations
Course code KFK/PTDIS
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kotala Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The seminar is to introduce modern techniques of oral disputation from historical and systematic perspective. The seminar uses basic knowledge of the logic of Aristotelian tradition, completes this knowledge and puts it in the context of academic disputes as practiced in particular by the Jesuits in the 17th century. The seminar shows the application of these rules on examples of historical disputations.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim is to introduce modern technique of oral disputation, to introduce selected texts from the relevant area, and to develop students' ability to construct and solve an argument.
Students will know the technique of modern oral disputation, will have a notion of selected texts and will be able to construct and solve arguments.
Prerequisites
An elementary notion of sylogistic reasoning and propositional logic is an advantage.

Assessment methods and criteria
Seminar Work

To obtain a course-credit, an active presence in the seminar classes as well as to elaborate a seminar paper is necessary.
Recommended literature
  • Novák, L., Dvořák, P. (2007). Úvod do logiky aristotelské tradice. České Budějovice: Teologická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích.


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