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Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)
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Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)
The course is aiming to awaken a sense for historical and intellectual context from which grew the concept of Western medicine, which is based on a rational way of thinking and methodology of modern sciences. But the aim is also to investigate critically both, the possibilities and limits of the Western concept of rationality. |
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Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)
Please do consult the following webpage for every topic discussed during the course:
Ages, Random House (1955), New York.
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Lectures supported by the interactive elements as well as the analysis of short texts and discussions. |
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Active presence at lectures and the final interview. |
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Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)
1. The origin and nature of Western rationality. People between the myth and the logos. 2. Presocratical period - the problem continuum as a conflict between infinite (of life, movement, space, time) finite (conceptual thinking). 3. Classical Period (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) and helenistic philosophy ? conflict between sensual and ideal world. 4. Philosophy in the Middle Ages: ratio in the service of faith? 5. Descartes and the modern science (Galileo, Newton, Leibniz). 6. The history of modern philosophy: the concentration of "I". 7. Postmodernism: a search for sobriety. 8. Contemporary philosophy: attempts to find a new rationality.
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