Technician and Contemporary Society

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Department of Languages and Humanities

Synopsis:

Why to take off a hat in a room and open a door for a lady, are there simple solutions, science vs belief, do we need to know or is it enough to turn on a PC, it must be true - it´s on the Internet and in newspapers, what are the sights for, interest in public affairs - a hangover from the past?

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none

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Study Objective:

The course should broaden the horizons of a student studying at a technical university, to pick holes in the sterotyped thinking about the surrounding world and improve their orientation in it.

Study materials:

Konrad Lorenz: Osm smrtelných hříchů, Academia 2001

Jehuda Bauer: Úvahy o holokaustu, Academia 2009

Gerald Messadié: Obecné dějiny antisemitismu, Práh 2008

Eric Fuchs: Co dělá naše jednání dobrým?, Mlýn, 2003

Erazim Kohák: Svoboda, svědomí, soužití, SLON, 2004

Miroslav Petříček: Myšlení obrazem, Herrmann & synové, 2009

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• navaz. mag. KOMBI program LA 24/25 (compulsory elective course)