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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Fundamentals of Philosophy - N832003
Title: Základy filozofie
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Education and Humanities (832)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:2
E-Credits: winter s.:2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr.
Interchangeability : Z832003
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (19.11.2012)
The course is aimed at questioning the origin, rationale and definition of knowledge. The course format is a lecture (and discussion).
Aim of the course -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (14.08.2013)

Students will be able to:

1. analyse elementary philosophical questions and will be informed about different answers

2. look up required information and rationally argue for different opinions

Literature -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (14.08.2013)

R: Platón, Prótagoras, Oikoymenh Praha 1992, ISBN 80-86005-98-4

R: Hume D., Zkoumání o lidském rozumu, Svoboda Praha 1996, ISBN 80-205-0521-0

R: Rorty R., Nahodilost, ironie, solidarita, Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy Praha 2001, ISBN 8086039145

A: Hussey E.,Presokratici, Rezek Praha 1997, ISBN 80-86027-07-4

A: Kratochvíl Z., Mýtus, filosofie, věda, Hrnčířství a nakladatelství Michal Jůza & Eva Jůzová, Praha 1996, ISBN 80-7111-021-3

A: Ferry L., Rozumět životu, Rybka Praha 2008, ISBN 978-80-87067-86-4

Learning resources -
Last update: TAJ832 (26.08.2013)

None.

Syllabus -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (14.08.2013)

1. What is philosophy? Philosophical problems, themes philosophizing. Philosophy vs. myth, poetry, science. 

2. What do we know and where from? Introduction to epistemological issues. 

3. Is there knowledge base? Descartes vs. Hume. Doubt and its limits. 

4. The problem of "I" and its identity. Personality and body. 

5. World of Homeric heroes, characteristics of mythopoetic experience, the multiplicity of perceptual fields and their transformations. 

6. The emergence of philosophy in Greece; transformation of social, religious, and cultural structures. 

7. Questioning the physis, questioning the truth. 

8. Is there one truth or many of them? (Plato Vs. Sophists). 

9. How to think about the movement? (Aristotle). 

10. Ancient skepticism. 

11. Copernican revolution in philosophy and its consequences. 

12. Language and the world. 

13. Philosophy of science

14. Ethics as an outcome of epistemology.

Registration requirements -
Last update: Světlík Martin Karel Mgr. (14.08.2013)

none

Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0 1
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.5 14
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 0.5 13
2 / 2 56 / 56
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Regular attendance 40
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests 60

 
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