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Course: Selected Chapters of the History of Philosophy

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Course title Selected Chapters of the History of Philosophy
Course code KFK/4VKF
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 7
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Dvořák Petr, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Cajthaml Martin, prof. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Origin, character and development of antient philosophy 2. Ionian philosophers of physis 3. Parmenides a Heraclitus 4. Socrates 5. Plato 6. Aristotle 7. Plotin a neoplatonism 8. Augustin 9. Scholastics: dispute concerning the universials 10. T. Aquinas 11. R. Descartes 12. B. Spinoza 13. G. W. Leibniz 14. J. Locke, G. Berkeley, D. Hume 15. I. Kant 16. S. Kierkagaard 14. F. Nietzsche 15. F. Brentano 16. M. Heidegger 17. L. Wittgenstein

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
This course introduces selected chapters from the history of philosophy: it presents basic philosophical problems in the relation to theology in the most significant figures from the history of thought and in text excerpts. The focus is on topics which are key for understanding Christian dogmatics. This course also helps students to gain orientation in the contemporary intellectual climate. The subject innovation has been supported by the project Support of Interdisciplinary studies and Study Programmes Innovations at Palacký University in Olomouc, CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0091.
Students will have basic orientation in the history of European philosophy and they will be able to explain main thoughts of great philosophers. In the exercises students will be presented with selected philosophical texts.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

Active participation in the exercises, written examination. The student is required to work with the learning objects, which have been created for the concrete subject and are available for authorized students in LMS EDIS.
Recommended literature
  • G. Reale, D. Antiseri. (1985). Il pensiero occidentale dalle origini ad oggi. Brescia.
  • H. J. Störig. (2000). Malé dějiny filosofie. Kostelní Vydří.
  • Kirk, G. S., Schofield, M., Raven, J. E., Karfík, F., Vítek, T., & Kolev, P. (2004). Předsókratovští filosofové: kritické dějiny s vybranými texty. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Patočka, J., Chvatík, I., & Kouba, P. (1991). Sókratés: přednášky z antické filosofie. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství.
  • Pieper, J., & Ozarčuk, I. (1993). Scholastika: osobnosti a náměty středověké filosofie. Praha: Vyšehrad.
  • Pieper, J., & Pokorný, M. (1997). Tomáš Akvinský: život a dílo. Praha: Vyšehrad.
  • Röd, W., & Karásek, J. (2004). Novověká filosofie. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Sobotka, M. (1970). Kapitoly z dějin německé klasické filosofie. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství.
  • Thurnher, R., Röd, W., Schmidinger, H., & Petříček, M. (2009). Filosofie 19. a 20. století. Praha: OIKOYMENH.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 14.06.2025 23:55. Data created for academic year 2024/2025