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Lecturer(s)
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Horák Petr, prof. PhDr. CSc.
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Course content
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The modern history of political thought: the theory of the state, the theory of civil and human rights, the classical political liberalism and antiliberalism. The philosophy of the civil egalitarianism and of the egalitarianism of the nations. The antagonism between liberalism [political and economical one] and the national movements. The idea of the citizenship as opposed to the idealised tradition. The theory of democracy: de Tocqueville.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The history of philosophy as a history of political thought III The modern history of political thougt: the classical after revolutionary liberal and anti liberal thinkers. The philosophy of the civic equality and of the egality of nations. The end of the Ancient regime conceived as a fulfilment of the strife for recognition [Hegel]. The dispute between the conception of the civic equality [the aim of the political and economic liberalism] and national movements. Civic consciousness vs. tradition. Enlightenment. Kant The strife for recognition, the master and the slave : Hegel The critique of the revolutionary madness : Burke The liberal reaction on the Napoleonic adventure : Constant The defence of the traditional society : de Maistre The utilitarianism allied to liberalism : Bentham, Mill Theory of democracy : de Tocqueville
The students will be acquainted with problems of the Enlightenment philosophical and political thoughts and theories representative until today for the fundamentals of our modernity.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Discussion
To be present at lectures, to study the litterary sources, to elaborate an essay.
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Recommended literature
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A. de Tocqueville. O demokracii v Americe.
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Blaise Pascal. Myšlenky, Dopis venkovanovi.
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Edmund Burke. Úvahy o francouzské revoluci.
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Fr. Furet. Promýšlet francouzskou revoluci.
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Fr.M.A.Voltaire. Filosofické listy, Rozprava o snášenlivosti, Pojednání o mravech a duchu národů, Candide.
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Hobbes. Leviathan, O občanovi.
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Immanuel Kant. Co je osvícenství?.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau. O společenské smlouvě.
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John Locke. Dopis o toleranci.
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Lynn Huntová. Francouzská revoluce. Politika, kultura, třída..
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Michel Foucault. Je třeba bránit společnost; Zrození biopolitiky..
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Mona Ozoufová. Revoluční svátky 1789 - 1799.
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Montesquieu. O duchu zákonů.
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Paul Hazard. La crise de la conscience européenne; La pensée européenne de Montesquieu a Lessing .
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Thomas Paine. Zdravý rozum; Lidská práva; Věk rozumu.
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