Course details
Philosophy and the Culture
FIK CVP FIK Acad. year 2022/2023 Summer semester 2 credits
The course of studies stresses the significance of cultural background for modern man, as an essential ethic and intellectual foundation giving birth to incentives taken from the philosophical and religious conceptions about the creation and the functioning of the world, the nature, society and the civilization.
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Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
The knowledge acquired will increase the general level of education of the students, and will contribute to the cultivation of mind, will provide for the education to tolerance and will be positive to the creation of own conscious and harmonic image of the world.
Learning objectives
To make the students familiar, besides the main cultural and philosophical streams of the past and the present, also with some mindless and heretic branches delineating the process of seeking and the development.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No prerequisity knowledge is called for.
Syllabus of seminars
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<li>Nature and the substance of the culture
<li>Basic types of the society
<li>Mythology and religion as the first key to the world
<li>Basic information about the world religions
<li>Religion in the art
<li>The Greek world in the mind and the esthetics
<li>Greek philosophy and its essential building blocks
<li>Greek philosophy as the teacher of life
<li>Life, mind and art in the ancient times
<li>Renaissance and its new paradigma
<li>New image of the world and the new place the human beings find themselves in
<li>Modern art
<li>Post-modern situation</li></ul>
Progress assessment
Presence at the lectures with passing the test and furnishing a written work.
Teaching methods and criteria
Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
Controlled instruction
There are no checked study.
Course inclusion in study plans
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- Programme IT-MGR-2, field MBI, MBS, MGM, MIN, MIS, MMM, MPV, MSK, any year of study, Compulsory-Elective group H
- Programme MITAI, field NADE, NBIO, NCPS, NEMB, NEMB up to 2021/22, NGRI, NIDE, NISD, NISY, NISY up to 2020/21, NMAL, NMAT, NNET, NSEC, NSEN, NSPE, NVER, NVIZ, any year of study, Elective