| Course title | Presocratics |
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| Course code | KPF/B224 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | unspecified |
| Work placements | unspecified |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. The character of pre-Socratic thought: a confrontation with the mythopoetic tradition and the thinking of Socrates. 2. Cosmological speculation of Milesians, interpretation of Anaximander's fragment B1. 3. Heraclitus' and Parmenides' thought of identity and diversity. 4. Connection of form and content of a philosophical speech by Heraclitus. 5. Heracleitus thought of oppositions. 6. Heracleitus thought of unity in change. 7. Logos and fire. 8. Physis. 9. The philosophical speech and poetic form by Parmenides. 10. Ontological interpretation of Parmenides' poem. 11. Connections of Parmenides' cosmological speculation with a reflexion on beeing. 12. The ethical dimension of pre-Socratic thought. 13. Heraclitus' and Parmenides' heritage in the later philosophical tradition.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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The aim of this subject is to describe the character of pre-Socratic thought and define it towards previous mythopoetic tradition as well as toward sequential philosophical tradition connected with the speech of Socrates. The course focuses selectively on Ionian archaical thinkers - Anaximander and mainly Heraclitus - and on the representatives of Eleatic tradition - Parmenides. On the characters of Heraclitus and Parmenides the course will demonstrate two different approaches toward the problem of origin and continuation, identity and diversity. The course focuses on how the basic philosophical themes are structured by pre-Socratic thinkers; towards which nowadays philosophical traditions is returning.
Student will learn in detail about the oldest period of the Greek philosophy and specific topics which are introduced here. Student will go through different styles of the reading of philosophical text. He/ She will be able to judge better the importance and the lifetime of philosophical topics which were formulated in the beginnings of the philosophical tradition. |
| Prerequisites |
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none
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
Students are actively participating during the seminar: (i) home preparation consists in reading chosen passages from primary literature related to particular themes discussed in the course, (ii) students elaborate papers based on secondary sources. To obtain credit: students work out a paper in written and orally presented form, using secondary academic literature (Czech, or foreign language), alternatively an essay on a given topic using primary and secondary sources. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A8) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Human Studies focused Aesthetics (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |