Course: Ancient Philosophy

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Course title Ancient Philosophy
Course code KFI/ANFI
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 7
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
Lectures (dr. Hobza) 1. Cultural and historical overview, Greek religion (Homer, Hesiod) 2. Introduction to the Presocratics (fragments, DK, doxography) 3. The Milesians (Aristotle's Metaphysics I,3; Anaximander) 4. Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics 5. Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus 6. Plato's and Aristotle's cosmology 7. Scepticism 8. Scepticism, Epicurus 9. Epicurus 10. Stoicism 11. Stoicism Lectures (doc. Cajthaml) 1. The sophists (historical background, Protagoras, Gorgias), Socrates (life, sources of the Socratic literature, hermeneutical problems arising from the divergence of the sources) 2. Socrates (the critique of the sophists, the notion of virtue, the care of the soul, the so-called Socratic intellectualism and its problems) 3. Plato (life and works, the so-called second voyage, the theory of Forms) 4. Plato (the Platonic dialectics, erós, the anthropological dualism, eschatological myths) 5. Plato (the transformation of the Socratic ethics in Plato, Socrates´ defense of the claim that it is better to suffer injustice than to commit it in Gorg. 471e-481b) 6. Plato (the praise of injustice in Resp. 357a-368c; the tripartite theory of the soul and the theory of the four cardinal virtues in Resp. 436a445c) 7. Aristotle (the usefulness of practical knowledge, the notion of happiness - NE, I) 8. Aristotle (moral virtue as a habitus and as a mean, the moral and the intellectual virtues, NE II) 9. Aristotle (the moral psychology in NE, III) 10. Aristotle (incontinence in NE, VII, friendship in NE, VIII-IX) 11. Neoplatonism (Plotinus, the Neoplatonist schools) Seminar (dr. Hobza) 1. Sophocles' Antigone 2. The Apology of Socrates (Socrates' disavowal of knowledge) 3. The Euthyphro (elenchus, 'ti esti' question, the Forms) 4. The Euthyphro, the Meno (priority of definition) 5. The Meno (recollection) 6. The Republic 7. The Parmenides (critique of the Forms) 8. The Metaphysics VII,1 (ousia, categories) 9. The Metaphysics VII,1-3 10. The Metaphysics VI,1 11. The Metaphysics XII

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Recommended literature
  • Aristotelés,, & Kříž, A. (1937). Etika Nikomachova. Praha.
  • Aristotelés,, & Kříž, A. (1996). Fyzika. Praha: Petr Rezek.
  • Aristotelés,, Kříž, A., & Rezek, P. (2008). Metafyzika. Praha: Rezek.
  • Kirk, G. S., Schofield, M., Raven, J. E., Karfík, F., Vítek, T., & Kolev, P. (2004). Předsókratovští filosofové: kritické dějiny s vybranými texty. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Long, A. A., & Kolev, P. (2003). Hellénistická filosofie: stoikové, epikurejci, skeptikové. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Platón,, & Novotný, F. (2005). Euthyfrón ;: Obrana Sókrata ; Kritón. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Platón,, & Novotný, F. (1995). Charmidés ;: Lachés ; Lysis ; Theagés. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Platón,, & Novotný, F. (2003). Parmenidés ;: Filébos ; Symposion ; Faidros ; Alkibiadés I,II ; Hipparchos ; Milovníci. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Platón. (2003). Kleitofón ;: Ústava ; Timaios ; Kritias. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Reale, G., & Antiseri, D. (1994). Il pensiero occidentale dalle origini ad oggi: corso di filosofia per i licei classici e scientifici. Brescia: Editrice La Scuola.
  • Ricken, F., & Mik, D. (2002). Antická filosofie. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2016) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter