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Course: Renaissance Philosophy

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Course title Renaissance Philosophy
Course code KFR/BRENE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Schifferová Věra, PhDr. CSc.
Course content
1) The terms "Renaissance" and "Renaissance Humanism"; variety of Renaissance thinking - main lines and themes; characteristic features of Renaissance thinking; 2) On the border between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Nicolaus Cusanus (Christian Neo-Platonism, docta ignorantia, concidentia oppositorum, Pythagorean mathematics); 3) Italian Renaissance. Florentine humanism. Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio; 4) Italian Renaissance. Florentine Platonism. Marsilio Ficino (immortality of the human soul, cosmology, man as a microcosm in macrocosm); 5) Italian Renaissance. Florentine Platonism. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (theory of emanation, conception of God and soul, the idea of harmony and universal correspondence); 6) Italian Renaissance. Padua aristotelism. Pietro Pomponazzi (dechristianization of Aristotle; influence of averroism); 7) Renaissance fantasy, magic, alchemy, astrology; natural philosophy. Tommaso Campanella, Giordano Bruno. 8) Political philosophers. Niccol? Machiavelli; 9) Political philosophy. Renaissance utopism; 10) Transalpin Renaissance. Skepticism of Michel de Montaigne; 11) Transalpin Renaissance. Erasmus Rotterdamský; 12) Renaissance in the context of literature, architecture and fine arts; 13) Creating a new image of the world and a new conception of man.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The semester course is an introduction to the problems of the Italian and Transalpine renaissance. The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the main representatives and with the most important ideas of this cultural epoch. Attention is paid to the birth and genesis of ideas that co-created modern times.
At the end of the course students will be acquainted with the problems of Renaissance philosophy.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Discussion

The course is completed by an exam, the condition is knowledge of taught topics.
Recommended literature
  • Erasmus Rotterdamský. Chvála bláznivosti. Praha, 2008.
  • Erasmus Rotterdamský. Chvála bláznivosti. Praha, 2008.
  • Erasmus Rotterdamský. O svobodné vůli. Praha, 2006.
  • Erasmus Rotterdamský. O svobodné vůli. Praha, 2006.
  • Ficino, Marsilio. O Slunci. Praha, 2017.
  • Ficino, Marsilio. O Slunci. Praha, 2017.
  • Hankins, James. Renesanční filosofie. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7298-418-3.
  • Hankins, James. Renesanční filosofie. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7298-418-3.
  • Huizinga, Johan. Erasmus. Praha, 2014.
  • Huizinga, Johan. Erasmus. Praha, 2014.
  • Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Osm filosofů italské renesance. Praha, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7021-832-7.
  • Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Osm filosofů italské renesance. Praha, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7021-832-7.
  • Nejeschleba, Tomáš. Kapitoly z renesanční filosofie. Brno, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7325-350-9.
  • Nejeschleba, Tomáš. Kapitoly z renesanční filosofie. Brno, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7325-350-9.
  • Pomponazzi. O nesmrtelnosti duše. Praha, 2012.
  • Pomponazzi. O nesmrtelnosti duše. Praha, 2012.
  • Pomponazzi. O nesmrtelnosti duše. Praha, 2012.
  • Svatoš, Michal. Živá tvář Erasma Rotterdamského. Praha, 1985.
  • Svatoš, Michal. Živá tvář Erasma Rotterdamského. Praha, 1985.


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