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Selected Topics in Ancient Aesthetics - AFS500313
Title: Vybrané kapitoly z antické estetiky
Guaranteed by: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2023 to 2023
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (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
Teaching methods: full-time
Level: specialized
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Ota Gál, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Ota Gál, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Ota Gál, Ph.D. (22.03.2024)
The seminar is dedicated beauty among selected authors of ancient philosophy. Beauty will be explored among certain pre-Platonic authors (especially Homer, Hesiod, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Gorgias, Isocrates), Plato, the Stoics, and Plotinus. Here, we will attempt to trace a common thread revolving around the concepts of order, unity in multiplicity, divinity, and its impact on the soul. For master's students in philosophy, for whom the course is primarily intended, the seminar offers an enrichment of knowledge about aesthetic motifs in antiquity. Other interested individuals from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies as well as other departments, who are also welcome, may find both discussed themes to serve as a brief introduction to the main philosophical schools of antiquity, although the seminar's focus will remain selective. The sessions will be conducted in the form of lectures with a basis in primary texts, which we will examine together.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: Mgr. Ota Gál, Ph.D. (31.01.2024)

A prerequisite for obtaining credits is, in addition to regular active participation, a written assignment of 6-8 pages devoted to one of the discussed topics.

Literature - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Ota Gál, Ph.D. (22.03.2024)

Doporučená sekundární literatura:

Beierwaltes W. Plotins Theorie des Schönen und der Kunst. In: F. Karfík, E. Song (eds.), Plato Revived, De Gruyter 2013.

Beierwaltes W. The Love of Beauty and the Love of God. In: AH. Armstrong (ed.), Classical Mediterranean Spirituality, Crossroad 1986.

Bett R. Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism. In: DS. Sedley, AW. Nightingale (eds.), Ancient Models of Mind, Cambridge University Press 2010.

Blondell R. Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation, Oxford University Press 2013.

Čelkytė A. The Stoic Theory of Beauty, Edinburgh University Press 2020.

Gál O. Plotinus on Beauty, Brill 2022.

Gál O. The Stoic Conception of Bodily Beauty as Symmetry. In: Aithér 2022/28.

Gammel IR. The Power of Beauty, Aarhus University Press 2015.

Halfwassen J. Die Idee der Schönheit im Platonismus. In: Méthexis 2003/16.

Havlíček A, Jinek J (eds.), Platónův dialog Hippias Větší, OIKOYMENH 2012.

Konstan D. Beauty, in: P. Destrée, P. Murray (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics, John Wiley & Sons 2015.

Kratochvíl Z. Délský potápěč k Hérakleitově řeči, Herrmann & synové 2006.

Šedina M. Achillův štít. In: týž, Sparagmos, OIKOYMENH 1997.

Stern-Gillet S. Le Principe Du Beau Chez Plotin: Réflexions sur "Enneas" VI.7.32 et 33. In: Phronesis 2000/45.

Vítek T. Empedoklés. Komentář. Herrmann & synové 2006.

Young BR. A Compelling Case for Beauty. Dissertation 2020.

Syllabus - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Ota Gál, Ph.D. (02.05.2024)

Témata

1. hodina (21.2.2024): καλός a κάλλος, Erós a Afrodíté I (Hésiodos, Homérské hymny)

Literatura: Theoc., Id. 23.28-32; Hymn. Hom. Apod. Ven.; Hes., Theog. 116-122

2. hodina (28.2.2024) Erós a Afrodíté II, Múzy a Charitky, Pandora (Hésiodos), Helena I

Literatura: Hes., Theog. 1-4; 10-39; 53-56; 62-79; 81-103; 108-115; 175-206; 211-232; 571-613; 907-911; Ael. Arist., Or. II.106; Philo, De plant. 128.1-6; Hes., Op. 53-105

3. hodina (6.3.2024): Helena II (Homér), krása u Homéra (Homér)

Literatura: Hom., Il. II.211-220; III.146-160, 383-420, 428-446; VI.343-358; VIII.10-17; XIV. 157-353; Hom., Od. IV.120-264; VI.229-235; VIII.167-177; IX.1-12; XIII.397-403; XVIII.158-250

4. hodina (13.3.2024): kosmos a harmonié (Homér, Hérakleitos)

Literatura: Hom., Il. XVIII.378-608; Heracl., DK22.B8, B32, B51, B54, B102, B114, B123, B124

5. hodina (20.3.2024): kosmos a harmonié (Empedoklés), Helena III (Gorgiás, Isokratés)

Literatura: Emp., DK31.B23, B96, B107, B272, AdB291 Hippol., A391 Arist.; Gorg., DK.82.B11; Isocr., Encom. (Or. X)

6. hodina (27.3.2024): Platónovo pojetí krásy I (Hippiás Větší, Faidón)

Literatura: Plat., Hipp. Maj. 286c3-295a2, 295b7-297d8, 299b8-303d10; Phd. 100b3-e4

7. hodina (3.4.2024): Platónovo pojetí krásy II (Hippiás Větší, Symposion)

Literatura: Plat., Hipp. Maj. 303d11-304a3; Symp. 209e6-212a8

8. hodina (10.4.2024): Platónovo pojetí krásy III (Symposion, Faidros, Sofistés, Filébos, Timaios)

Literatura: Plat., Phdr. 249d4-252c2; Soph. 228a10-b1; Phlb. 51c1-d3; Tim. 29d6-30a6; 31b7-32a6; 33b1-c1; 53d8-54b3; 87c4-6

9. hodina (17.4.2024): Stoické pojetí krásy

Literatura: Galen., PHP V.2.31.1-34.1, 46.1-48.4, V.3.14.1-18.1; De temp. 1.566.13-16; Arist., Poet. 1450b.34-1451a.6; Plut., De comm. not. 1067a, 1079b.7-11; De Stoic. repugn. cp. 44 p. 1054 e; Philo, De Vita Mosis 2.140.1-6; Cicero, De officiis 1.95-98, Tusc. disp. IV.30-31; De nat. deor. II 22, 58; Plot., Enn. I.6.1.20-25; Stob., Ecl. I.1.12, Anth. II.7.5b4.12-16; Sextus, Adv. Math. IX.78.1-82.1, IX.107.2-5, IX 111.3-114.5, IX.336.1-337.1, XI.24.1-6; Seneca, Ep. 9.16, 102; Simplicius, In Ar. Cat. 214.24-37; Chalcidius 292; Alexander, De Mix. 225,1-2; Aetius, Plac. I.6; Dio Chrys., Or. 36.55.1-5; Hippolyt., Philos. 21; DL VII.100, 137.9-138.1 

10. hodina (6.5.2024): Plótínovo pojetí krásy

Literatura: Plot., Enn. I.6.2.12-29, 6.25-32, 8.16-27; V.5.8.3-13; V.8.2.9-16, 4.6-26, 9.1-18, 13.1-17; VI.2.18.1-8; VI.6.18.1-17; VI.7.22.5-36, 32-33.

 
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