Philosophy 2

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language
XE16FI2	Z	2	2+2s

The course is a substitute for:

Philosophy 2 (E16FI2)
Philosophy 2 (X16FI2)

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Department of Economics, Management and Humanities

Synopsis:

The course is oriented on the ancient philosophy, philosophy of science and technology and on philosophical aspects of economics and politics.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. The role of philosophy, mythology, the earliest philosophical schools, the Milesian school and reductionism

2. Pythagorean school, concept introduced by Pythagoreans, cosmology

3. Heraclitus fate and his ideas, comparison with eastern thinking

4. Eleatic school, methodology of science

5. The teaching of Anaxagoras and Empedocles

6. Atomism, various concepts of atom, determinism and freedom

7. The Sophists, the role of subject, ancient atheism

8. Socrates, his live and teaching. Dialogical method, socratic moral paradox

9. Imperfect socratic schools, Magarians and the paradox of Liar, Cynics, Hedonics

10. Plato, live and philosophy. The realm of Forms, Platonism

11. Aristotle, his work, physics, logics

12. Hellenistic period, Epicureanism, parenclisis and present-day quantum physics

13. Stoic philosophy, logics, morality

14. School in Alexandria, Euclides, Christian patristic, Augustine, Boethius

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Study materials:

1. Zamarovský, P., The Historical Roots of Philosophy, CVUT, Praha 2007

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