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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The objectives of the course are (1) to provide an introduction to the shift- relative to ancient Greek and Mediaeval philosophy-in philosophical problems that emerge with so-called philosophical “modernity” and (2) to formulate the major issues in modern thought that have become the target of the various so-called “post-modern” critiques of modernity. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The practicum of critically reading eminent philosophical texts will comprise the point of departure for the study of the course’s objectives. On the basis of this practicum, the issues treated by the texts will be formulated and the students’ encounter with them facilitated. Class format will be Seminar. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Part 1: Methodological Certainty in Philosophy (Week 1-Week 4)
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
Part 2: Primacy of Sense Experience in All Knowledge (Week 5-Week 8)
Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Part 3: Symbolic Cognition and the Quest for Universal Science (Week 9-Week 12)
Meditations on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas, On the Universal Characteristic, Monadology by G.W. Leibniz
Recapitulation (Week 13) |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
Students will be evaluated based upon the following two distinct parameters: (1) Participation (which includes, yet is not limited to attendance, in-class active participation). If you are absent, please ask some of your classmates for any assignments or key discussion materials missed. (2) A Final Oral Exam (dates and additional info will be provided in due course) |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (03.01.2024)
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume II, trans. Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch; A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume; Leibniz: Philosophical Essays, trans. Ariew and Garber |