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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (13.06.2023)
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (13.06.2023)
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: • Identify and situate historical trends in the western philosophical and scientific canon. • Explicate and critically analyze the complexities of a variety of issues. • Synthesize and contextualize myriad and sometimes [seemingly] disparate ideas and themes. • Understand how to deconstruct and formulate philosophical arguments. • Conduct sound academic research. • Reflect upon the deeper meaning of texts and how they relate to subjects beyond circumscribed fields. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (13.06.2023)
Week I: General Introduction, Discussion on the question, “What is humanitas?” Week II: Chalmers, “Consciousness and Its Place in Nature,” in Philosophy of Mind, pp. 247 - 272. Week III: Aristotle, Excerpts from Nicomachean Ethics in Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy. (Guest lecture by Tatia Bassileos). Week IV: Cicero, “Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4, Book 4,” in Cicero on the Emotions, pp. 42 - 70. Week V: Hume, “Book II: Of the Passions, §3: Of the influencing motives of the will,” pp. 265 - 268, and “Book III: Of Morals, Part 1: Of virtue and vice in general,” pp. 293- 306, in A Treatise of Human Nature. Week VI: Kant, “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Section I: Transition from common rational to philosophic moral cognition,” in Practical Philosophy, pp. 49 - 60. Week VII: Freud, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle, §1-3,” in The Penguin Freud Reader, pp. 214
Week VIII: Heidegger, “A. The Existential Constitution of the ‘There’, §29. Being there as Stateof-mind,” in Being and Time, pp- 172 - 179. Week IX: Ayer, “Critique of Ethics and Theology,” in Language, Truth, and Logic, pp. 104 - 117. Week X: Held, “The Ethics of Care as Moral Theory,” in The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global, pp. 9 - 28. Week XI: Haidt, “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment.” Week XII: Dreyfus, “Misrepresenting Human Intelligence,” in Artificial Intelligence: The Case Against, pp. 41 - 54. |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (13.06.2023)
Students will be assessed on a summative essay of approximately 3,000 words on a topic of their choosing related to any of the themes or texts discussed throughout the course. The project should be a critical enterprise, i.e., it should aim to advance an original, sophisticated argument and not merely offer an exposition of certain texts or ideas. Papers should be formatted according to academic standards specified in the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). The examination constitutes 80% of the student’s final grade.
As class discussions are an indispensable component of the course, attendance is important. Reasonable accommodations may be made in exceptional circumstances, but please communicate any foreseeable absences or complications as much in advance as possible. A written or oral makeup assignment will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Attendance constitutes 20% of the student’s final grade.
Grading Scale (in %) 90 - 100 Pass (First) 80 - 89 Pass (Second) 70 - 79 Pass 0 - 69 Fail |
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Poslední úprava: Bc. Veronika Kučabová (13.06.2023)
Ayer, A.J. Language, Truth, and Logic. London: Penguin Books, 1946. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. “Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4.” In Cicero on the Emotions. Translated by Margaret Graver. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. Chalmers, David J. “Consciousness and Its Place in Nature.” In Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. Edited by David J. Chalmers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Dreyfus, Hubert. “Misrepresenting Human Intelligence.” In Artificial Intelligence: The Case Against. Edited by Rainer Born. London: Routledge, 1987. Freud, Sigmund. “Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” In The Penguin Freud Reader. Edited by Adam Phillips. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2006. Haidt, Jonathan. “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgement.” Psychological Review 108, no.4 (2001): 814-834. Held, Virginia. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1962. Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature: Volume I. Edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Kant, Immanuel. “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.” In Practical Philosophy. Translated and edited by Mary J. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle. Edited by S. Marc Cohen, Patricia Curd, and C.D.C Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2016. All texts will be made available to students by the instructor.Further Reading James, William. “What is an Emotion?” Mind 9, no. 34 (1884): 188-205. Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Mussell, Simon. Critical Theory and Feeling: The Affective Politics of the Early Frankfurt School. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Noddings, Nel. Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013. Seneca. “On Anger.” In Anger, Mercy, Revenge. Translated by Robert A. Kaster and Martha C. Nussbaum. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Tomkins, Silvan S. Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins. Edited by E. Virginia Demos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. |