History of Ancient Philosophy - KFIL020
Title: Dějiny antické filozofie
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jakub Jinek, Dr. phil.
Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Jakub Jinek, Dr. phil.
Is co-requisite for: KFIL021, KKFIL0211, KFIL005
Examination dates   WS schedule   Noticeboard   
Annotation -
Introduction in the history of ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Neoplatonism with special emphasis on the positions of Plato and Aristotle.
Last update: JINEJ7AS (03.10.2021)
Aim of the course -

The aim of the course is to understand the positions of ancient thinkers through hermeneutically appropriate work with the original texts.

Last update: Jinek Jakub, doc. Mgr., Dr. phil. (30.09.2024)
Literature -

Primary

Aristotle, Categories, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics

Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae

Kirk, G. S. – Raven, J. E. – Schofield, M., The Presocratic Philosophers. A Critical History with a Selection of Texts, Cambridge 1971.

Plato, Protagoras, Republic, Phaedo, Statesman

Plotinus, Enneads

 

Secondary

Flashar, H., Aristoteles. Lehrer des Abendlandes, München 2013.

Flashar, H. – Ueberweg, F. (eds.), Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie der Antike, 4 vol., Basel 1983-1998.

Gaiser, K., Platons Ungeschriebene Lehre, Stuttgart 1963.

Guthrie, W. K. C., A History of Greek Philosophy, 5 vol., Cambridge 1962-1978.

Held, K., Treffpunkt Platon, Stuttgart 20013.

Höffe, O., Aristotle, Albany (N. Y.) 2003.

Krämer, H.-J., Arete bei Platon und Aristoteles, Heidelberg 1959.

Rapp, Ch., Aristoteles zur Einführung, Hamburg 20124.

Reale, G., A History of Ancient Philosophy, New York 1990.

Ross, W. D., Aristotle, Oxford 1923.

Ross, W. D., Introduction, in: Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Oxford 1924.

Shields, Ch. J., Aristotle, London – New York 2007.

Szlezák, T. A., Platon, München 2021.

Zeller, E., Die Philosophie der Griechen in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung, 3 vol., Darmstadt 20066 (19191).

Last update: Jinek Jakub, doc. Mgr., Dr. phil. (30.09.2024)
Teaching methods -

lecture, reading of selected texts

Last update: Jinek Jakub, doc. Mgr., Dr. phil. (30.09.2024)
Requirements to the exam -
Sufficient knowledge of the subject matter; orientation in the selectted primary texts.
Last update: JINEJ7AS (03.10.2021)
Syllabus -

1) Introductory session
2) Philosophy and myth. Militants. Heracleitus and Parmenides
3) Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists. Pythagoreans. Sophistry and Socrates.
4) Plato I: Life and works, hermeneutics of dialogues and criticism of writing. The concept of philosophy.
5) Plato II: Soul, virtue and knowledge. The best community
6) Plato III: Ideas, first principles and dialectics
7) Plato IV: Cosmology and Theology
8) Aristotle I: Life and work, relation to Plato, question of his development. Language, logic and ontology
9) Aristotle II: First Philosophy
10) Aristotle III: Physics, cosmology, psychology, biology
11) Aristotle IV: Ethics and Politics
12) Hellenistic philosophy: skepticism, stoicism, epicureanism
13) Neo-Platonism

Last update: Jinek Jakub, doc. Mgr., Dr. phil. (30.09.2024)