1) What is philosophy? What is politics? Topics of research and transformation of political philosophy 2) Questions of ancient political philosophy: Socrates, Plato: philosophy, justice and political power 3) Questions of ancient political philosophy: Aristotle: community, justice, good, types of establishment 4) Questions of medieval political philosophy: Augustine, Aquinas, Occam, Marsilius of Padua: Philosophy and theology, the earthly community and the community of God 5) The question of freedom in modern political philosophy: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant 6) Social contract theory: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant 7) Different forms of liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, J. S. Mill 8) Philosophy of history and political philosophy: Hegel, Kant 9) Marx, Marxism and critical theory: Marx, Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas, Honneth 10) Philosophical rejection of liberalism and democracy: Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt 11) Liberal theory of democracy: Schumpeter, Popper, Rawls, Nozick 12) Republican theory of democracy: Arendt, Barber, Pettit 13) Deliberative and agonistic theories of democracy: Habermas, Cohen, Mouffe, Chomsky
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Introduction to the basic issues of the relationship between philosophy and politics, freedom, justice, social contract, liberalism, democracy and republicanism. Discussion of methods, theories, interrelationships between them, their evaluation and critique.
Orientation in basic texts of political and philosophical theories. Knowledge of ways of their study. Ability to name their advantages and disadvantages.
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Arendt. O revoluci. Praha, 2009.
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Berlin. Čtyři eseje o svobodě. Praha, 1999.
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Habermas. Teorie demokracie dnes. Praha, 2002.
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Hobbes. Leviathan. Praha, 2009.
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Kant. Studie k dějinám a politice. Praha, 2013.
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Locke. Druhé pojednání o vládě. Praha, 1992.
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Popper. Otevřená společnost a její nepřátelé I-II. Praha, 1994.
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Rousseau. O společenské smlouvě. Praha, 2003.
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Schumpeter. Kapitalismus, socialismus a demokracie. Praha, 2004.
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