Course detail

Philosophy and the Culture

FIT-FIKAcad. year: 2017/2018

The course of studies stresses the significance of cultural background for modern man, as an essential ethic and intellectual foundation giving birth to incentives taken from the philosophical and religious conceptions about the creation and the functioning of the world, the nature, society and the civilization.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

ThMgr. Milan Klapetek

Department

Continuing Education and Counselling Centre (CVP)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The knowledge acquired will increase the general level of education of the students, and will contribute to the cultivation of mind, will provide for the education to tolerance and will be positive to the creation of own conscious and harmonic image of the world.

Prerequisites

No prerequisity knowledge is called for.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Presence at the lectures with passing the test and furnishing a written work.

Course curriculum

    Syllabus of lectures:
    • Nature and the substance of the culture
    • Basic types of the society
    • Mythology and religion as the first key to the world
    • Basic information about the world religions
    • Religion in the art
    • The Greek world in the mind and the esthetics
    • Greek philosophy and its essential building blocks
    • Greek philosophy as the teacher of life
    • Life, mind and art in the ancient times
    • Renaissance and its new paradigma
    • New image of the world and the new place the human beings find themselves in
    • Modern art
    • Post-modern situation

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To make the students familiar, besides the main cultural and philosophical streams of the past and the present, also with some mindless and heretic branches delineating the process of seeking and the development.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

There are no checked study.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Průvodce dějinami evropského myšlení, Praha, 1985 Filosofická čítanka, Praha, 1971 Slovník světového malířství, Praha, 1991

Recommended reading

Anzenbacher, A.: Dějiny filosofie. Praha, 1990

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's

    branch MMI , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MBI , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MSK , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MMM , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MBS , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MPV , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MIS , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MIN , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    branch MGM , 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

ThMgr. Milan Klapetek

Syllabus

  • Nature and the substance of the culture
  • Basic types of the society
  • Mythology and religion as the first key to the world
  • Basic information about the world religions
  • Religion in the art
  • The Greek world in the mind and the esthetics
  • Greek philosophy and its essential building blocks
  • Greek philosophy as the teacher of life
  • Life, mind and art in the ancient times
  • Renaissance and its new paradigma
  • New image of the world and the new place the human beings find themselves in
  • Modern art
  • Post-modern situation