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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Practical Philosophy A - AFS200004
Title: Praktická filosofie A
Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025 to 2026
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / 70 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.
Christopher Cowley, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Christopher Cowley, Ph.D.
Is interchangeable with: ARL100090
Annotation -
The course "Practical Philosophy A" consists of lecture and readings in primary philosophical texts. Together with the course "Practical Philosophy B", it introduces students to the main problems of ethics and political philosophy.
During the course, students will clarify the topic of a written paper which they will write as a follow-up to this course under individual guidance. The course also prepares for the relevant parts of the Bachelor's examination (part b: History of Philosophy, items 6) "Good, Action, Will" and 7) "Society, State, Law"; part c: Contemporary Philosophy, the headings "Ethics and Political Philosophy").

The specific content of the course may change from semester to semester, i.e., shifting weight between subtopics, while maintaining the emphasis on acquiring a thorough knowledge of the primary literature that students must master in order to pass the BA examination. These are basically the following thematic areas: normative ethical theories, political commitments and their justification, justice, history of ethics, metaethics.

The seminar on Practical Philosophy A (and the seminar on Practical Philosophy B) will be taught in two "parallel sessions" this year, so that the seminar groups are truly discussion-based and ideally one presentation per group.
Last update: Král Matěj, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.06.2026)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Atestace:

  • prezentace textu na semináři
  • osnova k Písemné práci z praktické filosofie; termín odevzdání 12.1.2026
  • klauzura


TERMÍNY KLAUZUR budou oznámeny před začátkem zkouškového.

Každá část je nezbytnou podmínkou atestace (žádnou nelze vynechat).

Splnění těchto podmínek je atestací kurzu Praktická filosofie A.

Last update: Mokrejšová Eva, Mgr. (08.12.2025)
 
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