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KFR / MCOPP
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KFR
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MCOPP
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Contemporary Political Philosophy
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
7
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
2
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 3
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0 / 0
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0 / 17
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
0
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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Lecture
The first part of the course will examine basic concepts of current political philosophy.
Seminar (M. Cíbik):
The course will examine the relationship between political philosophy and political practice. It will sytematically look at the questions like: What are the limits of political philosophy? What it is that political theory does? Is there a purpose in thinking about utopias? And why?
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Requirements on student
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Paper of 8-10 pages submitted before June, 30, 2023
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Content
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The course will be divided into 2 quasi-independent parts. The "lecture" will be taught by dr. Václav Sklenář and the "seminar" by dr. Matej Cíbik
Lecture (V. Sklenář)
In this part of the course, we are going to explore three basic concepts of today's political debate through engaging with famous political analyses. The structure is as follows:
1. Introductory lecture
Theme 1: What is a nation (state)?
2. Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
3. Michael Billig - Banal Nationalism
4. David Miller - National Responsibility and Global Justice
5. Liav Orgad - The Cultural Defense of Nations
Theme 2: What is capitalism?
6. Ellen Meiskins Wood - The Origin of Capitalism
7. Leif Wenar - Blood, Oil, Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World
8. Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
9. Slavoj Žižek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Téma 3: What is democracy?
10. David Held - Models of Democracy (part 2)
11. David Held - Models of Democracy (part 2)
12. David Held - Models of Democracy (part 3)
13. David Held - Models of Democracy (part 3)
Passages to be read will be specified and texts provided.
The seminar
The aim of the seminar is to discuss some aspects of contemporary political theorizing that were not discussed in the winter term in my "Problems of political philosophy" course. The main motivation of the course is to examine the relationship between political philosophy and political practice. It will systematically look at the questions like: What are the limits of political philosophy? What it is that political theory does? Specifically, what is the relationship between actual politics and its theorising? Is there any purpose or benefit in utopian thinking?
The first part of the course will be thus focused on the clash between "moralism" and "realism" as two opposing programmes for political theory. We will start with reading excerpts from Gerald Gaus' Philosophy and Real Politics, Williams' At the beginning there was deed, David Enoch's Utophobia and others (specifically Chantal Mouffe, Adam Swift and Andrea Sangiovanni). This will take roughly half of the course.
In the second half, we will discuss the application of political theory into some real-life problems, focusing especially on:
- Debates on global justice
- Hate speech and its regulation
- Human rights and their philosophical foundations
Week-by week:
I. Introduction - The problem of congruence
II. Philosophy and Real Politics
(Literature: Raymond Guess: Philosophy and Real Politics (excerpts)
III. The value of utopian thinking
(Literature: David Estlund: Utophobia)
IV. Agonism
(Literature: Chantal Mouffe: Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?)
V. Ideal and non-ideal theory
(Literature: Stemplowska & Swift: Ideal and Non-ideal theory)
VI. Cosmopolitanism and global justice
(Literature: Thomas Pogge: Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty)
VII. Cosmopolitanism and global justice II
(Literature: Tomas Nagel: The Problem of Global Justice)
VIII. Nationalism
(Literature: Will Kymlicka: Citizenship in the era of Globalization)
IX. Free speech/Hate speech
Literature: Waldron
X. Human rights
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Guarantors:
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Hejduk, Ph.D. ,
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Lecturer:
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Hejduk, Ph.D. (100%),
Mgr. Václav Sklenář, Ph.D. (100%),
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Seminar lecturer:
Mgr. Matej Cíbik, Ph.D. (100%),
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Hejduk, Ph.D. (100%),
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Literature
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
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Teaching methods |
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Assessment methods |
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