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KFR / MPRP2
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KFR
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MPRP2
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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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Problems of Political Philosophy II
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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,
5
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
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
1
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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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 / 5
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0 / 0
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0 / 10
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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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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
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:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The course consists of short lectures combined with seminar discussions of selected topics from current debates in political thinking.
The tentative plan of topics:
1. Introduction; motivation for the outline of the course
2. Antagonism vs. conceptions of public reason (Laclau, Mouffe) - expertise, technocracy and ideology
3. The revival of conservativism
4. Race and racism
5. The problems of colonialism; postcolonialism debates
6. Poverty and exploitation; Global North vs. Global South
7. Surveillance, privacy, security, autonomy
8. War
9. Capitalist realism, work, UBI
10. Civil disobedience, direct democracy, populism
11. "Overpopulation" debates
12. Climate justice
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Requirements on student
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The classes combine the intro lecture with a discussion of the topic (sometimes based on assigned reading; but not all classes will have their assigned readings). Students are expected to attend the course (80%) and participate in the discussion.
Suggested readings (not everything to be read in entirety):
Chantal Mouffe, "The Limits of John Rawls' Pluralism"
Charles Mills, "Racial Liberalism"
Mart Kuldkepp, "Western Orientalism towards Eastern Europe"
Martha Nussbaum, "Poverty and Human Functioning: Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements"
Peter Königs, "Government Surveillance, Privacy, and Legitimacy"
Saba Bazargan-Forward, "War Ethics and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine"/Jovana Davidovic, "Why Russian Soldiers Should lay Down Their Arms"/Helen Frowe, "Ukraine and the Ethics of War"
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, chap. 1 and 3 (excerpts)/Guy Standing, A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens, sections "Defining Basic Income" to "Criticisms"
David Harvey, "The political implications of population-resources theory"
Megan Blomfield, "Should land be reclassified as a global commons?"
Credits requirements:
1) To submit a short (1000-2000 words) mid-term essay about a selected topic (tentative deadline: 31 March)
2) A Problem Analysis text, relating to a topic discussed in the course. It may be either based on the preliminary short essay, or about a different topic. The Problem Analysis text will be graded for the examination (Zkouška).
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Content
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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. Ondřej Beran, Ph.D. ,
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Lecturer:
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Beran, Ph.D. (100%),
Sylvie Bláhová, Ph.D. (100%),
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Seminar lecturer:
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Beran, Ph.D. (100%),
Sylvie Bláhová, Ph.D. (100%),
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Examiners:
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Beran, Ph.D.,
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Literature
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
Students attending the course must be able to read and discuss philosophical texts. |
Competences acquired |
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Teaching methods |
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Assessment methods |
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