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For each course, there is a department responsible for the course organisation. A person responsible for timetabling for a given department sets a time schedule of teaching and for each class, s/he assigns an instructor and/or an examiner.
Expected time consumption of the course is expressed by a course attribute extent of teaching. For example, extent = 2 +2 indicates two teaching hours of lectures and two teaching hours of seminar (lab) per week.
At the end of each semester, the course instructor has to evaluate the extent to which a student has acquired the expected knowledge and skills. The type of this evaluation is indicated by the attribute completion. So, a course can be completed by just an assessment ('pouze zápočet'), by a graded assessment ('klasifikovaný zápočet'), or by just an examination ('pouze zkouška') or by an assessment and examination ('zápočet a zkouška') .
The difficulty of a given course is evaluated by the amount of ECTS credits.
The course is in session (cf. teaching is going on) during a semester. Each course is offered either in the winter ('zimní') or summer ('letní') semester of an academic year. Exceptionally, a course might be offered in both semesters.
The subject matter of a course is described in various texts.
BE0B16FI1 Philosophy 1 Extent of teaching: 2P+2S Instructor: Zamarovský P. Completion: KZ Department: 13116 Credits: 4 Semester: Z,L Annotation:
We deal with the most important persons, schools and ideas of ancient philosophy. We are concerned especially on transdisciplinary nature of philosophy and connection of old philosophical thoughts with recent problems of science, technology, economics and politics.
Lecture syllabus:
1. Philosophy and thinking. Mythical, philosophical and scientific accounts. The first philosophers. 2. Thales and the Milesian school. Seeking for the basic principle, reductionism, hylozoism, the conception of soul. 3. Pythagoras and his school, present-day residues of Pythagoreism (numerology, reincarnation .) 4. Heraclitus, dynamical approach. Comparison to the Eastern philosophy. 5. The school of Eleya, problems with methodology of cognition (the conception of free space). 6. Anaxagoras, Empedocles. The concept of matter. 7. Atomism, its origin and consequences. The absolute determinism and freedom, problems of materialism. 8. The crisis of knowledge, the Sophists. Is man the measure of everything? Relation to postmodernism. 9. The life and death of Socrates. Socrates and the Sophists, method of dialogues, Socrates' moral paradox. 10. The imperfect Socratic schools, Megarians, the paradox of the liar. 11. Plato, his life and philosophy. The realm of forms (ideas). The allegory of the cave; ideal state or totality? 12. Aristotle and the peak of classical philosophy, logic, physics. Aristotelism and Scholastics. 13. Hellenistic philosophy, Epicureism and Stoicism. Pyrrhonism (scepticism). Philosophy in Alexandria (Eucleides and mathematics). 14. Christianity and philosophy. Aurelius Augustinu, Boethius. Seminar syllabus:
1. The concept of philosophy. Examples of myths. 2. Seeking for the basic principle, reductionism, hylozoism, the conception of soul. 3. Present-day residues of Pythagoreism (numerology, reincarnation .) 4. Heraclitus, examples of interpretation. 5. The school of Eleya, problems with methodology of cognition (the conception of free space). 6. The concept of matter in ancient times and today. 7. The importance of atomism in natural science. Problem of determinism. 8. The crisis of knowledge, the Sophists. Is man the measure of everything? Examples. 9. The importance of method of dialogues. 10. The paradox of the liar, and its modern versions, Grelich paradox, Russell paradox. 11. The realm of forms (ideas) and present-day science today. The meaning of the allegory of the cave. 12. Aristotle logic and physics. 13. Interesting moments of Epicureism and Stoicism. Euclides Stocheia today. 14. Pyrrhonism (scepticism), modern scepticism. Literature:
1. Zamarovský, P. The Historical Roots of Philosophy, ČVUT, Praha 2007 2. Stumpf, E. S., Socrates to Sartre, McGraw-Hill, New York 1993 Requirements:
Posluchači absolvují během semestru tři testy a vypracují prezentaci na dohodnuté téma.
The course is also part of the following Study plans:
Study Plan Study Branch/Specialization Role Recommended semester BIE-TI.2015_ORIGINAL Computer Science (Bachelor, in English) VH 6 BIE-TI.2015 Computer Science (Bachelor, in English) VH 6 BIE-WSI-SI.2015 Software Engineering (Bachelor, in English) VH 6 BIE-BIT.2015 Computer Security and Information technology (Bachelor, in English) VH 6
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