| Course title | Selected Topics in Philosophical Antropology 8 (The Philosophy of Meaning) |
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| Course code | KFI/NPCL8 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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Structure: R. Descartes: scepticism and the foundation of meaning in metaphysical knowledge I. Kant: from moral to religious meaning F. Nietzsche: the destruction of moral and metaphysical meaning in the name of the meaning of life E. Husserl: emptied rationality and the possibility of its renewal A. Camus: life has meaning because it is absurd T. Nagel: absurdity and irony J. Patocka and the hiddenness of great meaning
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Course description: The philosophy of meaning The course is devoted to the motif of meaning and the absurd in the modern thought. The question of meaning is rather avoided by more recent philosophical reflexion, while at the same time it is, paradoxically, one of the questions usually associated with philosophy. The content of the course is a thematization of this question through both older and more recent texts, both from the continental and analytic tradition. It is partly recapitulative, as it starts with the modern continental tradition where this question is born. Attention is paid to selected texts, beginning with R. Descartes and ending with T. Nagel or J. Patocka. The aim is to cultivate philosophical questioning and to sort out possible approaches to a question that is increasingly urgent in the age of the progress of the media world. Literatura: Descartes, R., Meditace o první filosofii. Přel. P. Glombíček. Praha, OIKOYMENH 2010. Kant, I., Kritika praktického rozumu. Přel. J. Loužil. Praha, OIKOYMENH 2022. Nietzsche, F., Ranní červánky. Přel. V. Koubová. Praha, OIKOYMENH 2023. Camus, A., Mýtus o Sysifovi. Přel. D. Steinová. Praha, Garamond 2006. Husserl, E., Krize evropských věd a transcendentální fenomenologie. Praha, Academia 1996. Nagel, T., Absurdno, in: Reflexe, 61, 2021, s. 71?82. Patočka, J., Kolem Masarykovy filosofie náboženství, in: J. Patočka, Češi I, Praha, OIKOYMENH 2006, s. 366?422
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| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2019) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2019) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2019) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |