Hume's moral philosophy - AFSV00143

• Anglický název: Hume's moral philosophy
• Zajišťuje: Ústav filosofie a religionistiky (21-UFAR)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2013
• Semestr: letní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: student může plnit i v dalších letech
• Garant: doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.
• Třída: Exchange - 08.1 Philosophy

Anotace

The course will be a reading seminar focused on two Hume’s pieces on moral philosophy: book 3 of his A Treatise of Human Nature, "Of Morals" and his Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. We will have a look on his essay The Sceptic as well.

Poslední úprava: JIRSAJA1 (27.01.2013)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Assessments:

40% final essay (2000 words)

30% presentation in class

30% participation in discussion

before each class, please, send me a short summary of the required text (max 500 words)

Poslední úprava: JIRSAJA1 (22.02.2013)

Literatura

Primary texts:

David Hume, Moral Philosophy, Edited, with Introduction, by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge. (contains all the necessary readings, the relevant parts will be available for download)

 

Secondary literature:

Introductory article by Cohon, Rachel, "Hume's Moral Philosophy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/hume-moral/>.

 

Cohon, Rachel (ed.), 2001, Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy, Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Dartmouth/Ashgate.

Norton, David Fate (ed.), 1993, The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Radcliffe, Elizabeth S. (ed.), 2008, A Companion to Hume, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Schneewind, J. B., 1998, The Invention of Autonomy, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Wiggins, David, 1998, "A Sensible Subjectivism?" in Needs, Values, Truth, 3^rd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 185-210.

Poslední úprava: JIRSAJA1 (03.01.2013)

Sylabus

22.2. - introduction, Hume's method and place in the history of moral philosophy

 

1.3. - An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (An Enquiry), Section I and Appendix I.

• additional reading: The Sceptic

 

8.3 - An Enquiry, Section II

• additional reading: A Treatise of Human Nature (A Treatise),II.1.1-5 (affections, passions, pride, humility)

 

22.3. - An Enquiry, Section III.1

• additional reading: A Treatise, III.2.1-2

 

5.4. - An Enquiry, Section III.2

• additional reading: An Enquiry, Appendix III.

 

19.4. - An Enquiry, Section IV

• additional reading: A Treatise, III.2.7 (Of the origin of government)

  
   

26.4. - An Enquiry, Section V.1

• additional reading: A Treatise, II.1.7, 11 (vice, virtue, sympathy)

 

 

3.5. - An Enquiry, Section V.2

• additional reading: An Enquiry, Appendix II

 

 

10.5.- An Enquiry, Section VI.

• additional reading: An Enquiry, Section VII

 

 

17.5. - An Enquiry, Section IX

• additional reading: An Enquiry, Section VIII

 

Poslední úprava: JIRSAJA1 (23.04.2013)