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Mixtures and constitutions - AFS500328
Title: Směsi a ústavy
Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024 to 2024
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences: critical thinking, data literacy
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. Karel Thein, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Hynek Bartoš, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Hynek Bartoš, Ph.D.
doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.
prof. PhDr. Karel Thein, Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The seminar will focus on the reading and analysis of key texts on the theory of mixed constitutions, which is considered to be one of the most important and influential ancient theories, since most constitutions of modern "democratic" states are based on this theory. Through the interpretation of selected passages from Plato's Laws, Aristotle's Politics, Polybius' History, and Cicero's On the State, we will explore how ancient thinkers understood the balance of power, the stability of the political system, and its resistance to decline. The seminar will offer a space for discussion of the relevance of these ideas in the contemporary political context.
Last update: Jirsa Jakub, doc., Ph.D. (30.01.2025)
Course completion requirements - Czech
  • účast na semináři (alespoň 3/4 seminářů)
  • prezentace
  • návrh vlastní ústavy (k tomu více na semináři)
Last update: Jirsa Jakub, doc., Ph.D. (30.01.2025)
Literature - Czech

Primární literatura:

Hérodotos, Dějiny III,80-83
Platón, Zákony III, 691a-694a
Aristotelés, Politika III,6-11 + III,18; IV,1-12
Polybios, Dějiny 6. kniha = v českém vydání: Polybios, Dějiny III, str. 13-64
Cicero, O věcech veřejných, I,35 (54) a I,46 (69)

Sekundární literatura:

Aalders, G. J. D. 1968. Die Theorie der gemischten Verfassung im Altertum. Amsterdam: Hakkert.

Balot, Ryan. 2015. "The 'Mixed Regime' in Aristotle’s Politics." In Aristotle’s Politics: A Critical Guide, edited by Thornton Lockwood and Thanassis Samaras, 103–22. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Biondi, Carrie-Ann. 2007. "Aristotle on the Mixed Constitution and Its Relevance for American Political Thought." In Freedom, Reason, and the Polis: Essays in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy, edited by David Keyt and Fred D. Miller, Jr., 176–98. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Blythe, James M. 1992. Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

von Fritz, Kurt. 1954. The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity: A Critical Analysis of Polybius’ Political Ideas. New York: Columbia University Press.

Hahm, David E. 2009. "The Mixed Constitution in Greek Thought." In A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, edited by Ryan K. Balot, 178–98. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hansen, Mogens Herman. 2010. "The Mixed Constitution versus the Separation of Powers: Monarchical and Aristocratic Aspects of Modern Democracy." History of Political Thought 31 (3): 509–31.

Schofield, Malcolm. 2021. Cicero: Political Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reid, Jonathan. 2021. "The Mixed Constitution in Plato’s Laws." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (1): 1–18.

Last update: Jirsa Jakub, doc., Ph.D. (30.01.2025)
Syllabus - Czech

1 – úvod a rozdělení prezentací
2 – Hérodotos, Dějiny III,80-83 a Aristotelés Pol. III.7
3 - Platón, Zákony III, 691a-694a
4 - Aristotelés, Politika III, 6-8
5 - Aristotelés, Politika III, 9-11 a III,18
6 - Aristotelés, Politika IV, 1-4
7 - Aristotelés, Politika IV, 5-12
8 - Polybios, Dějiny VI,3-10 /str. 15-23/
9 - Polybios, Dějiny VI,11-18 /str. 25-31/
10 - Cicero, O věcech veřejných, I,35 (54)
11 - Cicero, O věcech veřejných, I,46 (69)
12 – obhajoba ústav

Last update: Jirsa Jakub, doc., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)
 
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