Course: Holistic philosophy

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Course title Holistic philosophy
Course code KFHS/B157
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tippelt Hynek, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Introduction into the subject, topics and literature 2) Holism before its origin: the motif of the whole in archaic philosophy 3) Splitted reality: ontological dualism and its consequences I: Cartesianism and the psycho-physical problem 4) Splitted reality: ontological dualism and its consequences II: Husserl and the Crisis of European Sciences 5) Spinoza's thinking I: Basic concepts of Spinoza's ontology, the holistic nature of his thinking 6) Spinoza's thinking II: The question of Spinoza's rationalism and his conception of degrees of knowledge 7) Spinoza's thinking III: Spinoza's psychology and philosophical psychotherapy, his conception of the relationship between idea and affect and the concept of the power of reason over affection 8) Spinoza's thinking IV: Spinoza's pantheism and the concept of intellectual love for God 9) Motif of the whole in German natural philosophy 10) Discussion of paradigm shift 11) Political applications of holistic thinking 12) Psychological aspects of holistic thinking 13) Summarizing colloquium

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to get acquainted with the theory of the so-called change of (meta-) paradigm taking place in contemporary philosophical thinking, which includes a critique of the recent dualistic paradigm and the expectation of developing a new holistic paradigm.
The student understands the importance of the theory of the so-called change (meta) paradigm, can distinguish dualistic and holistic paradigm in various aspects of philosophical thematicization and can apply the theory in the interpretation of historical variables approach to reality.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
- a presentation in a seminar in the range of 20 minutes - written paper
Recommended literature
  • Aristotelés. Metafyzika. Praha, 2003.
  • Bondy, E. Postpříběh, příležitostné eseje a rekapitulace, Filosofické dílo, sv. IV. Praha, 2013.
  • Capra. Bod obratu: Věda, společnost a nová kultura. DharmaGaia, 2002.
  • Descartes, R. Meditace o první filosofii. Námitky a autorovy odpovědi. Praha, 2003.
  • Kleinová, M. Závist a vděčnost a další práce z let 1946-1963. Praha, 2005.
  • SCHELLING, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von. Filosofická zkoumání bytnosti lidské svobody a s tím souvisejících předmětů: s komentáři Ch. Herrmanna, H. Fuhrmanse a W. Schulze. Praha, 1992. ISBN 8070070315.
  • Smuts, J. Ch. Holism and Evolution. New York, 1927.
  • Spinoza, B. Etika. Praha, 2001.
  • Tippelt, H. Jindy, jinde a jinak. Filosofie a změna paradigmatu očima psychoanalýzy. Praha, 2012.
  • Tippelt, H. Vztah ideje a afektu u Spinozy. Inkrementálně holistická interpretace. Ústí nad Labem, 2007.


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