Course: History of Philosophy 2

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Course title History of Philosophy 2
Course code KFI/DF2HB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Moural Josef, Doc. RNDr. CSc.
  • Paitlová Jitka, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Introduction. The point of departure - late 16th and early 17th century. Montaigne, Bacon, Galilei. 2) René Descartes (1596-1650). 3) Further figures and movements of Descartes' period: Mersenne, Gassendi, Hobbes, Arnauld, Pascal, Malebranche, the occasionalists. 4) The big systems: Spinoza, Leibniz. 5) Locke, Newton, Berkeley, Shaftesbury, Butler, Hutcheson. 6) The Enlightenment: Bayle, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, d'Alembert atd. Rousseau. 7) David Hume (1711-1776). 8) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). 9) The idealists: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel. Further German philosophy of the epoch. 10) Opposition to idealism: Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Trendelenburg, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche. 11) Utilitarianism and positivism: Bentham, Comte, Mill, Spencer. 12) Other figures of the 19th century: Cousin, Tocqueville, Darwin, Nietzsche, Sidgwick atd. 13) Prelude to the 20th century: neokantianism, Brentano school, pragmatism, Bergson.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 48 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 30 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe the history, politics and culture of modernity
Skills
to use basic philosophical terms with understanding
to identify the problem (thesis) and reproduce the argumentation contained in a given text
to use modern technologies, especially information databases
Competences
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learning outcomes
Knowledge
to characterize the main authors, schools and topics of modern philosophy
to describe the most important philosophical conceptions of modernity and explain their development
to summarize selected important philosophical works of modernity
Skills
to analyze primary texts of modern philosophy with basic comprehension
to relate selected conceptions of modern philosophy to each other
to relate the development of thoughts, authors and works of modern philosophy to the historical and cultural background of modernity
to discuss and argue about a specific topic of modern philosophy
Competences
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teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Textual studies
Self-study of literature
Skills
Seminar
Skills demonstration
Individual study
Students' portfolio
Competences
Seminar
Skills demonstration
Students' portfolio
Textual studies
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Seminar work
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Seminar work
Competences
Combined exam
Seminar work
Skills demonstration during practicum
Recommended literature
  • Blecha, Ivan. Filosofický slovník. Olomouc : FIN, 1995. ISBN 80-7182-014-8.
  • Coreth, Emerich; Ehlen, Peter; Schmidt, Josef. Filosofie 19. století. Olomouc : Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2003. ISBN 80-7182-157-8.
  • Coreth, Emerich; Schöndorf, Harald. Filosofie 17. a 18. století. Olomouc : Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2002. ISBN 80-7182-119-5.
  • Descartes, René. Meditace o první filosofii. 1. vyd. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2003. ISBN 80-7298-084-X.
  • Falckenberg, R. Dějiny novověké filosofie. Praha : Jan Laichter, 1899.
  • Höffding, Harald; Král, Josef. Přehledné dějiny filosofie. Praha : Česká grafická unie, 1947.
  • Holzhey, Helmut; Röd, Wolfgang. Filosofie 19. a 20. století. II., Novokantovství, idealismus, realismus a fenomenologie. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2006. ISBN 80-7298-178-1.
  • Hume, David. Zkoumání o lidském rozumu. 1. vyd. (v tomto překladu). Praha : Svoboda, 1996. ISBN 80-205-0521-0.
  • Popkin, Richard H.; Stroll, Avrum. Filozofie pro každého. Praha : Ivo Železný, 2000. ISBN 80-240-0257-4.
  • Röd, Wolfgang. Německá klasická filosofie. I, Od Kanta k Schopenhauerovi. Vydání první. 2015. ISBN 978-80-7298-200-4.
  • Röd, Wolfgang. Novověká filosofie. I, Od Francise Bacona po Spinozu. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2001. ISBN 80-7298-039-4.
  • Röd, Wolfgang. Novověká filosofie. II, Od Newtona po Rousseaua. Praha : Oikoymenh, 2004. ISBN 80-7298-109-9.
  • Störig, Hans Joachim. Malé dějiny filosofie. Kostelní Vydří : Karmelitánské nakladatelství, 2000. ISBN 80-7192-500-2.
  • Thurnher, Rainer; Röd, Wolfgang,; Schmidinger, Heinrich. Filosofie 19. a 20. století. III, Filosofie života a filosofie existence. Vyd. 1. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7298-177-9.
  • Tvrdý, Josef. Průvodce dějinami evropské filosofie. Brno : Komenium, 1947.
  • Windelband, Wilhelm. Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie. 7. vyd. Tübingen : J. C. B. Mohr, 1916.


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