JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: History of political thought

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Course title History of political thought
Course code KPOL/B124
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bláha Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Pre-Platonic political philosophy (Socrates, Plato). 2. Aristotle, political philosophy after Aristotle and the thinking of the Roman Republic. 3. Christian political thought, patristics (Augustine) and scholastics (Aquinas). 4. New foundation of political science (N. Machiavelli). 5. Classical theories of social contract (T. Hobbes, J. Locke). 6. French Enlightenment (Ch. De Montesquieu, J. J. Rousseau). 7. English Revolution 1640-1688, the struggle with absolutism and for religious tolerance, the theory of the republic. 8. The French Revolution and its political thinking, from the beginning to the Jacobin dictatorship. 9. The American Revolution and its political thinking, after the creation of the American federal constitution. 10. Reaction to the revolutions of the end of the 18th century. (E. Burke conservatism, A. de Tocqueville's aristocratic liberalism). 11. Enlightenment and deontological morality (I. Kant). 12. Analysis of politics in the modern age (K. Marx, M. Weber).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course introduces the development of political thought from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century. It presents the ideas of the most important political philosophers and their main works. It introduces the basic concepts of Western political philosophy. It offers an outline of the development of basic concepts, major thinkers and concepts associated with the development of Western political thought.
The student is able to use professional terminology. The student is able to characterize the specifics of political philosophy as an independent discipline. The student is able to clarify the basic concepts of political philosophy. The student distinguishes the main directions of questioning political philosophy. The student is able to characterize selected problems of political philosophy in various areas of development of the history of political thought. The student is able to place the most important problems of individual disciplines of political philosophy in the historical context.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
To complete the course, it is necessary to submit comments on the assigned texts in the scope of 5 x 2 standard pages and then pass a didactic test.
Recommended literature
  • Aristotelés. Politika.
  • BURKE, E. Úvahy o revoluci ve Francii. Brno, 1997.
  • FURET, F. Francouzská revoluce, I, Od Turgota k Napoleonovi 1770-1814. Praha, 2004. ISBN 80-7203-452-9.
  • Hamilton, A. - Madison, J. - Jay, J. Listy federalistů. Olomouc, 1994. ISBN 80-7067-390-7.
  • Hobbes. Leviathan. Praha, 2009.
  • Kučera, R. Filosofické kořeny politického rozhodování. Ústí nad Labem, 2018.
  • Kučera, R. Politická historie demokracie. Ústí nad Labem, 2012.
  • LOCKE, J. Dvě pojednání o vládě. Praha.
  • Machiavelli, N. Vladař a Rozpravyo prvních deseti knihách Tita Livia. In: Úvahy o vládnutí a vojenství. Praha, 2008.
  • MONTESQUIEU, CH. de. O duchu zákonů díl I.. Praha, 2011.
  • Platón. Ústava. Praha, 1996.
  • Rousseau, J. J. O společenské smlouvě. Praha, 2002.
  • Stulík, O. Dějiny evropských politických teorií. Plzeň, 2016.
  • Swift, A. Politická filozofie. Praha, 2005.
  • TALMON, J. L. O původu totalitní demokracie. politická teorie za Francouzské revoluce a po ní. Praha, 1998.
  • Tocqueville Alexis de. Starý režim a revoluce. Praha, 2003. ISBN 80-200-0980-9.
  • TOCQUEVILLE, de A. Demokracie v Americe, díl I a díl II. Praha, 1992.


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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.11.2024 23:51. Data created for academic year 2024/2025