Course: Development of Natural Sciences

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Course title Development of Natural Sciences
Course code KRP/IVPV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Javůrek Milan, doc. Ing. CSc.
Course content
1) Ways of seeing and understanding the world (materialism, idealism, agnosticism, metaphysics, agnosticism, dialectic, rationalism, skepticism ...) 2) The relationship of philosophy and science (induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis), philosophy and science, existence and its nature. 3) Non-European philosophy (India, China), the beginnings of European philosophy 4) The Ionian philosophy (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) 5) Pythagora's group (Pythagoras) Eleatics (Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno and his aporias). 6) The Greek atomists (Heraclitos, Leiukippos, Democritos, Empedocles, Epicurus, Anaxagoras). 7) Top Greek philosophy (Socrates, Socrates group, Kynik's) 8) Plato, Aristotle. 9) Late Antiquity (Zeno of Citium, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius) 10) Early Middle Ages - Arab philosophy (Avicenna, Averroes, Jabir ibn Hajján, Al - Chowarizimi, Gajjám), the beginnings of Medicine (Asclepius, Hippocrates, Galenos). 11) Early Christianity - Patristics (Apologists, of Alexandria School, Greek Patristics). 12) High and late Patristics (Jerome, Augustine, Boethius, Gregory the Great) 13) Early Scholastic (Anselm, Abelard, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas). High scholasticism (R. Bacon, W. Occam, Nicholas of Cusa).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
Acquaint students with important terminuses under development of the human knowledge, circumstances and conditions development, meanings discoveries for others knowledge, concurrence discoveries and pivotal agents applied on development human companies, development production coaming and relations of production, significant stature philosophy and knowledge.
Enlargement survey about development philosophy and techniques along development.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of history and universal information.

Assessment methods and criteria
Discussion

Participation on lectures.
Recommended literature
  • G.W.F. Hegel. Dějiny filosofie 1 - 3.. Praha, 1961.
  • Popelová, J., Vaculík, V., Adamec, J. Základy filosofie. SPN Praha, 1970.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Communication and Microprocessor Technology (2016) Category: Electrical engineering, telecommunication and IT - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Process Control (2013) Category: Special and interdisciplinary fields - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Communication and Microprocessor Technology (2015) Category: Electrical engineering, telecommunication and IT - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Information Technology (2014) Category: Informatics courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Communication and Microprocessor Technology (2013) Category: Electrical engineering, telecommunication and IT - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Process Control (2015) Category: Special and interdisciplinary fields - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Information Technology (2016) Category: Informatics courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Process Control (2014) Category: Special and interdisciplinary fields - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Information Technology (2013) Category: Informatics courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Communication and Microprocessor Technology (2014) Category: Electrical engineering, telecommunication and IT - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Information Technology (2015) Category: Informatics courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics Study plan (Version): Process Control (2016) Category: Special and interdisciplinary fields - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter