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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1st key issue at the beginning? what is philosophy? 2nd cosmology and the first ontology, the differences between East and West questioning 3rd birth of metaphysics and the curse of inheritance 4th What God? a man? 5th foreign word gnoseology? knowledge and skepticism 6th turn to the subject? rationalism and empiricism 7th limits of knowledge 8th philosophy and science, philosophy and language 9th transformation of human understanding 10th man as a subject? human existence 11th human place in the world 12th postmodern stew?
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Baseline rate is problematic aspect in the themes will be followed (mostly) historically. The students will give only an overview of the development of philosophical thought (from the ancient beginnings to our own / post / post-modern present), its prominent representatives, directions, schools, etc., but also the problem of circuits and their related "disciplines" (the problem being - cosmology , ontology, metaphysics, theology, the problem of knowledge - noetika, gnoseology, epistemology, philosophy of language, theory of truth, theory of science, the problem of a man - Anthropology, ethics?) will also be introduced to different styles of thinking and reasoning. The accent is above all the problems of knowledge (epistemic and epistemological), which are particularly acute for journalists.
- ability to reason analytically and synthetically - ability of critical analysis of basic philosophical literature in Czech - ability to demonstrate the understanding of contemporary philosophical literature on the topics discussed in the class (the theory of cognition, etc). - ability to discuss on philosophical topics related to the media (and journalism
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Prerequisites
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ability to work with specialized texts
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay
Requirements for credit: - Final test and writing an essay on a chosen topic - on the basis of preparation specified texts Colloquium: defense writing an essay and debate on a selected topic from the lecture circuit course.
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Recommended literature
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Blecha, I. (ed.). Filosofická čítanka. Olomouc 2000.
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Blecha, I. Filosofie. Olomouc 2002..
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Fürst, M. (1994). Filozofie.. Praha: Fortuna.
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Gaarder, J. Sofiin svět (kterékoli vydání).
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Hollis, M. (2000). Pozvání do filosofie, Barrister & Principal, Brno 2001. Brno: CDK.
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Kohák, E. Člověk, dobro a zlo, Ježek, Praha 1993.
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Scruton, R. Průvodce moderního člověka filosofií, Barrister & Principal, Brno 2003.
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Störig, H. J. Malé dějiny filosofie, Zvon, Praha 1996 (a novější vydání).
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Williams, J. T. Pú a filosofové, Volvox Globator, Praha 1997.
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