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Philosophy of Existence and Medicine - CVOL0309

Title:	Philosophy of Existence and Medicine
Guaranteed by:	Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty:	Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual:	from 2024
Semester:	summer
Points:	5
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/15, C [HS]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (0)
Min. number of students:	3
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:	critical thinking
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	distance
Level:
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	doc. PhDr. Zuzana Svobodová, Ph.D.

Examination dates Schedule

Annotation -

The course introduces the Philosophy of existence with connections to medicine. Several philosophers of existence will be explained, read and discussed. The course is only for virtual mobility, taught via MS Teams. Students can be from all fields of study (studying medicine is not a prerequisite).

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (21.11.2022)

Aim of the course

The main goal is to introduce into the core issues of the philosophy of existence.

Following thinkers will be analyze: S. Kierkegaard, J.-P. Sartre, Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Emmanuel Lévinas, Paul Ricoeur.

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (28.12.2023)

Course completion requirements -

Project presentation in class with minimum 10 and maximum 20 slides and paper with 3-5 norm pages uploaded into Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=14388

The main outcomes of the course:

Understanding of the main issues of the philosophy of existence
Knowing the first mentions of the philosophy of existence (S. Kierkegaard, J.-P. Sartre)
Understanding of relationship to „the other“ in the philosophy of existence I (Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel, Emmanuel Lévinas, Paul Ricoeur)
Understanding the importance of the topic of body and corporeality in the philosophy of existence (Maurice Merleau Ponty)

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (28.12.2023)

Literature

https://www.citacepro.com/slozka/JLnVefBE

Selection of recommended literature

All from (Plato, Aristotle, ...): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman

EDELSTEIN, Emma Jeannette Levy a Ludwig EDELSTEIN. Asclepius: a collection and interpretation of the testimonies. New York: Arno Press, 1975, 2 sv.

EDELSTEIN, Ludwig, Owsei TEMKIN a Lilian C TEMKIN. Ancient medicine: selected papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1967, 496 s.

EDELSTEIN, Ludwig. The Hippocratic oath: text, translation and interpretation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1943, vii, 64 s.

EDELSTEIN, Ludwig. The idea of progress in classical antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967, xxxiii, 211 s.

ENGELHARDT, Hugo Tristram a Stuart F SPICKER. Evaluation and explanation in the biomedical sciences: proceedings of the first Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine held at Galveston, May 9 - 11,1974. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1975, VI, 240 s.

FOUCAULT, Michel. The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception. New York: Vintage Books, 1994, xix, 215 s. ISBN 0679753346.

GALÉNOS,. On the doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato. 2nd ed. augm. and rev. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, c2005, VI, s. 611-836. ISBN 3050041943.

HAYDEN, J. M. (2024). Leadership and the ethics of hope: Václav Havel and the Charter 77 human rights movement in Czechoslovakia. Leadership, 20(5), 314-333. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150241256160

ILBERG, Joh. A. Cornelius Celsus und die Medizin in Rom. Lipsiae: [s.n.], 1907.

JÄGER, Werner. Paideia: die Formung des griechischen Menschen. 3. Aufl. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1959, 418 s.

MOON, Robert Oswald. Hippocrates and his successors in relation to the philosophy of their time: the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal college of physicians 1921-22. London: Longmans, Green and co., 1923, 171 s.

PAGEL, Walter. Jo. Bapt. van Helmont: Einführung in die philosophische Medizin des Barock. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1930, VIII, 223 s.

PALM, Lodewijk Carel. Entwicklung der Geschichte Medizin in den Niederlanden. Die Entwicklung des medizinischen Unterrichts. Halle (Saale): Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 1982, : 147-153.

Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine: PEHM [online]. London: BioMed Central, 2006- [cit. 2015-08-19]. ISSN 17475341.

The journal of medicine and philosophy [online]. Lisse, the Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger Pub [cit. 2015-08-19]. ISSN 17445019.

Theology and Philosophy of Education. [online] https://tape.academy ISSN 2788-1180.

WELLMANN, Max. Die Fyzika des Bolos Demokritos und der Magier Anaxilaos aud Larissa. Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1928, 80 s.

WELLMANN, Max. Marcellus von Side als Arzt und die Koiraniden des Hermes Trismegistos. Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1934, 50 s.

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (18.10.2024)

Teaching methods

Lectures via MS Teams (virtual), presentations, discussions, and dialogues. Study materials in moodle. Written exam.

Schedule times of this online course:

Schedule 2024 Summer semester (dates and times the course is taught as virtual mobility): February 20, 17-18:30; February 27, 17-18:30; March 5, 19-20:30; March 12, 19-20:30; March 19, 19-20:30.

Link in MS Teams for connection: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a4fX5jgMV4FYY_xp81HRVnfsZjVEEmhZcU-spzYWZj1Y1%40thread.tacv2/1669044750609?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22da59b418-9bdf-4c0e-b401-2e81c8f22ed6%22%7d

Course in the university moodle system: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=14388

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (24.11.2023)

Requisites for virtual mobility

Minimal requirements, prerequisites, and conditions for selection and enrolment of students: Students can use MS Teams for video meetings (camera+microphone). Minimum English level B1: "Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans" - source: https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-1-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-global-scale

Schedule 2024 Summer semester (dates and times the course is taught as virtual mobility): February 20, 17-18:30; February 27, 17-18:30; March 5, 19-20:30; March 12, 19-20:30; March 19, 19-20:30.

Course in the university moodle system: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=14388

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (24.11.2023)

Syllabus -

1. Philosophy of existence - introduction. The main issues of the philosophy of existence
2. The first mentions of the philosophy of existence (S. Kierkegaard, J.-P. Sartre)
3. „The other“ in the philosophy of existence I (Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel)
4. Body and corporeality in the philosophy of existence (Maurice Merleau Ponty)
5. „The other“ in the philosophy of existence II (Emmanuel Lévinas, Paul Ricoeur

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (21.11.2022)

Learning resources

Literature: https://www.citacepro.com/slozka/JLnVefBE

Link to the course in the university moodle system: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=13701

Link to the MS Teams group for the subject: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3aomicV6oI5PP6BmKcwumC2E18WNVIwajmFH7af7ITO_k1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=914ba371-f004-49d4-8c50-c2e0ce5cdc61&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2

Link to the MS Teams sessions in the exact dates and hours: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a4fX5jgMV4FYY_xp81HRVnfsZjVEEmhZcU-spzYWZj1Y1%40thread.tacv2/1669044750609?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22da59b418-9bdf-4c0e-b401-2e81c8f22ed6%22%7d

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (21.11.2022)