FP-Introduction to Philosophy - RETA7001B

• Anglický název: Introduction to Philosophy
• Zajišťuje: Katedra filosofie (27-F)
• Fakulta: Evangelická teologická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2024
• Semestr: oba
• Body: 3
• E-Kredity: 3
• Rozsah, examinace: 2/0, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: zimní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen); letní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Je zajišťováno předmětem: RETA7001
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; předmět lze zapsat v ZS i LS
• Garant: Mgr. et Mgr. Olga Navrátilová, Ph.D.

Anotace

This is a one semester version of RETA7001.

The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the field of philosophical questioning and to present
philosophy as never-ending movement of thought rather than a system of particular teachings. To this end, we will
use several examples of important texts of the Western philosophical tradition. The course will focus on the
acquirement of the skills necessary for the interpretation of philosophical texts.

Summer term 2025:
Introduction to Philosophy
Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life

Lenka Karfíková
Summer Term 2025, Thursday 3:10-4:40 p.m.
Černá 9, room H

Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) is one of the most influential and wide-ranging historians of ancient philosophy of our time. His books Philosophy as a way of life (Spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault, 1987) and What is ancient philosophy? (1995) present a history of philosophy as a spiritual exercise from Socrates to Foucault. By focusing our attention on this understanding of philosophy, Hadot provokes us to ask the question of what it means to philosophise today.

Poslední úprava: Karfíková Lenka, prof., Dr. theol. (31.12.2024)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

For winter semester: The students are asked to read one of the below listed books introducing to philosophy. Each student should write a short essay about one of the philosophical questions chosen from the selected book (three pages) as well as prepare a short introduction to the question which she/he will present to other students.

For summer semester 2024: 

Credits can be earned by regular preparation and active participation in the seminar and the final colloquy resuming the private and common readings plus one of following topics:

1. Socrates’ Irony: Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 148-158

2. Socrates and Eros: Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 158-170

3. Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius: Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 191-202

4. Philosophy, Exegesis, and Creative Mistakes; Spiritual Exercises: Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 71-76; 81-89

5. Learning to Dialogue; Learning to Die; Learning How to Read: Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 89-109

6. The Value of the Present Instant: Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 217-235

7. The Sage and the World: Philosophy as a Way of Life, pp. 251-261

 

Moodle: https://moodle.etf.cuni.cz/moodle/course/view.php?id=1061

key: hadot

 

Poslední úprava: Karfíková Lenka, prof., Dr. theol. (31.12.2024)

Literatura

Literature:

·       Pierre Hadot, What is ancient philosophy? Engl. translation Michael Chase, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2002.

·       Pierre Hadot, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie antique?, Paris: Gallimard 1995.

·       Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault, Engl. translation Michael Chase, Oxford: Blackwell 1995.

·       Pierre Hadot, Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique, Paris: Albin Michel 1987.

·       Pierre Hadot, N’oublie pas de vivre: Goethe et la tradition des exercices spirituels, Paris: Albin Michel 2008.

 

Sources:

·       Plato, Socrates’ Defense (The Apology of Socrates), transl. Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack, 2007: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1023144

·       Plato, Symposium, transl. David Horan, The Dialogues of Plato, vol. 2, 2021:

https://www.platonicfoundation.org/translation/symposium/

·       Plato, Phaedo, transl. Alex Long, Meno and Phaedo, Cambridge University Press 2010.

·       Aristotle, Metaphysics, transl. W. D. Ross, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1924.

·       Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, transl. Terence Irwing, Cambridge, Indianopolis: Hackett 1999.

·       Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Scepticism, ed. Julia Annas – Jonathan Barnes, Cmabridge University Press 2000.

·       Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, transl. R. D. Hicks, vol. 2, London: Heinemann – New York: Putnam 1925.

·       Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, transl. G. Hays, New York 2002.

·       Plotinus, The Enneads, transl. L. P. Gerson et alii, Cambridge University Press 2018.

·       Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, 1-3, transl. J. Ferguson, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press 1991.

·       Basil of Caesarea, On the Human Condition, transl. Nonna Verna Harrison, Crestwood, N.Y.: St Vladimirʼs Seminary Press 2005.

·       Augustine, True Religion, transl. E. Hill, in: On Christian Belief (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, I/8), Hyde Park, New York: New City Press 2005.

·       Philo of Alexandria, The Special Laws, transl. C. D. Yonge, The Works of Philo, London: H. G. Bohn 1854-1890.

·       Epictetus, Discourses, transl. George Long, New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1904.

·       Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, transl. Richard Mott Gummere (Loeb Classical Library Edition), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1915.

Moodle: https://moodle.etf.cuni.cz/moodle/course/view.php?id=1061

key: hadot

 

Poslední úprava: Karfíková Lenka, prof., Dr. theol. (31.12.2024)