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? - CCOC5932

Title:	Dějiny filosofie
Guaranteed by:	Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty:	Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual:	from 2010
Semester:	winter
Points:	4
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	winter s.:
	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:0/30, C [HS] summer s.:0/30, C [HS]
Extent per academic year:	60 [hours]
Capacity:	winter:unknown / unknown (unknown) summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:

Guarantor:	Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. PhDr. Radomír Rozbroj
Attributes:	Modul IID

Examination dates Schedule

Annotation -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)

The course will give a brief overview of the history of Western philosophical thinking as well as present in form of discussion selected philosophical topics which affect the medical issues in the wider sense. The overview of the history of philosophy will make students familiar with its main stages from antiquity to the present. The selected thematic issues will concern on problems such as origin and nature of Western rationality, human freedom and the emergence of modern science.

Aim of the course -

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.

Literature -

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:

http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

Gilson, Etienne: A History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle

Ages, Random House (1955), New York.

Scruton, Roger: A Short History of Modern Philosophy, Routledge (1984), London.

Teaching methods -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)

Lectures supported by the interactive elements as well as the analysis of short texts and discussions.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.04.2009)

Active presence at lectures and the final interview.

Syllabus -

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.