Aesthetics - PKIN060
Title: Estetika
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Sciences Foundation in Kinanthropology (51-300000)
Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:6/0, C [HS]
Extent per academic year: 6 [hours]
Capacity: 28 / unknown (28)
Min. number of students: 10
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: combined
Level:  
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. PhDr. Miloš Bednář, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Miloš Bednář, Ph.D.
Examination dates   WS schedule   Noticeboard   
Annotation -
Aim of the subject is to acquaint students with basic concepts of aesthetics (beauty, kalokagathia etc). Understanding and meaning of reflections concerning movement activities (incl. APA) is the second aim. Students will be acquainted also with key persons of history of aesthetics.
Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (25.09.2020)
Aim of the course -

1. List the basic categories of aesthetics.

2. Discuss the therapeutic influence of BEAUTY ("Can it reduce pain?").

3. Suggest a preferred path to achieve beauty (as a product of human creativity) within the dilemma of the environmental vs. Dionysian path (Nietzsche).

4. Evaluate the role of aesthetics in sport and physical activities.

5. Evaluate the role of aesthetics for handicaped people.

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (01.08.2023)
Course completion requirements -

ad credit:
submit a written case study and send it to the following address no later than 5 days before the end of the year
bednar@ftvs.cuni.cz

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.08.2023)
Literature -

A Companion to Aesthetics. D. E. Cooper (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

Kant, I. Critique of the Judgement. Orig. 1790.

Rampley, M. Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.08.2023)
Syllabus -

1. Definition of the subject and methods of aesthetics; the relationship between aesthetics and other humanities.
2. Ancient concepts with relevance to aesthetics: kalokagathia - aisthésis - harmonia - katharsis - mimésis - sófrosyné.
3. Plato and the idea of BEAUTY; his dialogues on beauty. Aristotle's "Poetics".
4. Conditions of beauty: harmony - harmony - rhythm - proportionality - symmetry - proportionality - grace - etc.
5. Kant, Hegel and the emergence of modern aesthetics. Dionysian versus Apollonian principle.
6. Aesthetic approach to the world of TVS; aesthetic evaluation of the body and sporting activities. "Physical training in the aesthetic aspect" and the figure of the aesthetician Tyrš.

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (09.08.2023)
Learning resources -

a) full-time teaching:

Classical lecture with PP presentation support.

b) Distance learning:

Online lecture on the Teams platform with support of PP presentation;
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In both options, the slides discussed are available on the Moodle 2 platform.

Link: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5173

Last update: Bednář Miloš, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (06.09.2023)