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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KFR
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MREA1
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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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Reading Seminar in Philosophy I
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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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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Seminar
2
[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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NO
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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 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / 20
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0 / 0
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0 / 20
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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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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter 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 |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
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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Course objectives:
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The aim of the seminar is to go through the main argument of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We will first consider Aristotle's identification of the highest human good with happiness (eudaimonia) and his argument for the different constituents of happiness; we will then move on to his definition of virtue (areté); we will next consider his division of virtue into practical and theoretical, and his account of practical virtue; next step will be his seminal examination of responsibility as the necessary condition of moral judgement and the location of responsibility in what is voluntary (action); lastly we will consider the role of both practical and theoretical reasoning (fronésis, sofia).
The seminar seeks to show how to deal with a seminal philosophical text: to follow and engage with the argument and see where it leads both in particular and in general.
Requirements: Active attendance, a presentation in the seminar, and a written essay on one of the topics discussed in the seminar (2.000 to 3.000 words).
1) 20. 9.
Introductory lesson: General introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics, Structure of EN, Formal requirements, translations used, distribution of presentations
2) 27. 9.
EN I 1094a1-1097a14: Teleological structure of reality, the highest good is happiness and views on happiness.
3) 4. 10.
EN I 1097a15-1098a20: The constitutive features of happiness and Aristotle's definition of happiness.
4) 11. 10.
EN I 1098b22-1101b9: The compatibility of Aristotle's definition of happiness with previous views and external circumstances.
5) 18. 10.
EN I 1102a5 - EN II 1105b18: The parts of the soul, the kinds of virtues, and the relation of virtue and action.
6) 25. 10.
EN II 1105b19-1107a27: Virtue is hexis and centre.
7) 1. 11.
EN III 1109b30-1111b3: Voluntariness.
8) 8. 11.
EN III 1111b4-1113a14: Prohairesis and bouleusis.
9) 15. 11.
EN III 1113a15-1115a3: Boulésis and voluntariness of virtue, summary.
10) 22. 11.
EN VI 1139b14-1142a30 + 1143b14-1145a11: Fronésis, sofia.
11) 29. 11.
EN X 1176a30-1178a8: Theória.
12) 6. 12.
EN X 1178a9-1181b24: Theoria and other virtues, external goods, conclusion.
13) 13. 12.
Overall summary EN
Text:
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. W. D. Ross (rev. by J. O. Urmson), in Aristotle, The Complete Works, J. Barnes (ed.), Princeton University Press (Princeton), 1991.
I. Bywater (ed.), Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea, Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1988.
Secondary literature:
Bostock, D., Aristotle's Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Pakaluk, M. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2005.
Broadie, S. - Rowe, Ch., Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary, Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2002.
Gauthier - Jolif, L'Éthique ? Nicomaque : Introduction, traduction et commentaire I-IV, Publication Universitaires Louvain, 1970
Wolf, U., Aristotles' Nikomachische Ethik, WBG (Darmstadt), 2007.
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Requirements on student
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Requirements: Active attendance, a presentation in the seminar, and a written essay on one of the topics discussed in the seminar (2.000 to 3.000 words).
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