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Basics of Philosophy - PKIN145C
Title: Basics of Philosophy
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Sciences Foundation in Kinanthropology (51-300000)
Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C+Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
Capacity: 24 / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
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: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D.
In complex incompatibility with: PFYZ219C
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Šárka Vokounová, Ph.D. (24.05.2013)
Survey of leading themes in philosophy, mainly the topics of the human being, human movement, health, and the human body in relation to the care of the self. The aim is to introduce a complexity of view of the area of the study.
Aim of the course
Last update: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D. (17.09.2023)

Aim of th course: Knowledge of basic concepts of philosophy with focus on anthropological line, understanding of philosophical reflections of medicine, basics of research ethics, knowledge of the main philosophers and relevant theories, development of interpretative skills, critical thinking.

The basic learning outcomes are:

- students orient themselves in the problem of defining concepts;

- students understand the complexity of human existence and its relationship to health;

- students have a critical view of the human body and can differentiate between different concepts of human corporeality;

- students can differentiate among different concepts of health;

- students can formulate current challanges in the areas of the human being and health;

- students have a deeper understanding of the position of human beings within physiotherapy, including the existential dimension;

- students know basic philosophers and their theories relevant to the field of kinanthropology;

- students understand basic issues within research ethics.

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Šárka Vokounová, Ph.D. (24.05.2013)

ARISTOTLE. Nicomachean Ethics

DESCARTES, R. Meditations on First Philosophy (Trans. J. Cottingham). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

HEIDEGGER, M. Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect to Aristotle: Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation. In T. Kisiel and T. Sheehan (Eds.), Becoming Heidegger. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007, pp. 150-184.

HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2001.

MARTÍNKOVÁ, I. Understanding Harmony. Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Kinanthropologica, 2003, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 85-90.

MARTÍNKOVÁ, I. and PARRY, J. Zen and Sports: Focusing o­n the Quality of Experiencing. In J. Parry, N. Watson and M. Nesti (Eds.). Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sport. New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 211-222.

MARTÍNKOVÁ, I. and PARRY, J. The Double Instrumentality of Sport. Studies in Physical Culture and Tourism, 2011, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 25-32.

PATOČKA, J. Body, Community, Language, World (Trans. E. Kohák). Chicago and La Salle, Ill: Carus Publishing Company, 1998.

PLATO. Five Dialogues. Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo. (Trans. G.M.A. Grube). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987.

RUSSELL, B. Problems of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.

SVENAEUS, F. The hermeneutics of medicine and the phenomenology of health: Steps towards a philosophy of medical practice. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D. (10.05.2015)
Credit Requirements
  • Test - questions to be answered with a short essay

Exam

  • Oral exam

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D. (10.05.2015)

1. Origin of philosophy, basic concepts. Mythos and logos; physis.

2. Ancient Greek philosophy at its best: Sakrates - Plato - Aristotle.

3. The topic of the truth. Stoicism and Epicureanism.

4. Racionalism (Descartes) and British empiricism (Locke - Berkeley - Hume).

5. Kant, Nietzsche - basic concepts in relation to health and the body.

6. Philosophy of existence (Kierkegaard, Heidegger). Dasein. Authentic mode of existence.

7. Various concepts of the body.

8. Various concepts of health (Descartes versus Heidegger).

9. Patočka a human existence. Ontologic understadning of movement.

10. Eastern philosophy and its relation to health and the body.

11. Revision.

Learning resources -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Irena Parry Martínková, Ph.D. (30.09.2021)

Materials for lectures will be stored at Moodle 1 (under: Fakulta tělesné výchovy a sportu/Katedra základů kinantropologie a humanitních věd/Name of the Course).

In the case of distance study lectures will be realized within MS Teams.

The link for lessons in MS Teams in the academic year 2021/2022: will be created if necessary based on a worsened epidemiological situation

 
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