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Lecturer(s)
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Chotaš Jiří, PhDr. Ing. Ph.D.
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Šimsa Martin, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Main topics: 1. The teleological explanation of history by G. W. F. Hegel 2. K.R. Popper on history and historicism 3. J. Patočka on philosophy of history 4. E. Rádl and L. Hejdánek on philosophy of history 5. The End of the History? (F. Fukuyama and F. Zakaria) 6. G. W. F. Hegel on the State 7. Nation and nationalism (J. G. Herder, E. Renan, E. Gellner) 8. The State and violence (M. Weber, W. Benjamin and H. Arendt) 9. The crisis and the crisis of sciences (E. Husserl, T. Kuhn) 10. Political freedom (I. Berlin) 11. Natural, human and civil rights (Declarations, B. Komárková, J. S. Trojan)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Student will be acquinted with the main topics of the contemporary political philosophy, such as the sense of history, the state and the nation, the crisis, the freedom, human rights.
Student will acquire following competences: - ability to judge critically selected topics from the contemporary political philosophy - will be able to write an informed essay about the selected topic from the contemporary political philosophy.
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Prerequisites
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Not specified.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
The credit will be given for the oral defence of the paper and for the answer of one or two questions selected from the main topics. The paper must be at least 8 pages long (14400 characters including spaces and footenotes) and its topic should be selected from the the main topics of the course.
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Recommended literature
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Berlin Isaiah. Dva pojmy svobody, in: J. Kis (ed.), Současná politická filosofie, s. 47-99. Praha, 1997. ISBN 80-86005-60-7.
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Fukuyama, Francis. Konec dějin?, in: Střední Evropa, 15, s. 9-24.. Praha, 1990.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Filosofie dějin. Pelhřimov, 2004. ISBN 80-86559-19-X.
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Kuhn Thomas Samuel. Struktura vědeckých revolucí. Praha, 2008. ISBN 80-86005-54-2.
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PATOČKA, Jan. Kacířské eseje o filosofii dějin. Praha, 1990.
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Pavlíček, Václav (ed.). Občanská a lidská práva v současné době. Praha, 2014. ISBN 978-80-87284-51-3.
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Renan Ernst. Co je to národ?, in: M. Hroch (ed.), Pohledy na národ a nacionalismus, s. 24-35.. Praha, 2003. ISBN 80-86429-20-2.
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Zakaria Fareed. Budoucnost svobody. Praha, 2012. ISBN 978-80-200-2037-6.
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