PHYSIOTHERAPY (and PE and Sport) - 1st year - Basics of Philosophy 2012-13
ESSAY (CREDIT):
For writing your essay, it is necessary to read at least one of the recommended texts below. First part of your essay should contain your interpretation of the chosen text, the second one should be your application of the text to physiotherapy or PE, your criticism, your opinions on the text. The essay should be at least 2 pages long (single spacing, size 12 Times New Roman). You can send the essays to the e-mail: martinkova@ftvs.cuni.cz or hand it in in printed form to my office H225 (in the room H222) or to the secretary room H255.
Reading list:
1) Philosophy in general, dialogue - Plato: Apology
2) Instrumentality - Martínková, I. Consequences of instrumentality in sport. Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Kinanthropologica, 2012, vol. 48, no. 1
3) Heidegger and health - Svenaeus: The hermeneutics of medicine and the phenomenology of health: Steps towards a philosophy of medical practice. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000, pp. 94-100 and 106-113 (This book is in the library of the faculty)
4) Three meaningful movements of human life - Martínková, I. Anthropos as Kinanthropos: Heidegger and Patocka on human movement.Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 217-230.
5) Eastern view of the human being - Martínková, I. and Parry, J. Zen and Sports: Focusing on the Quality of Experiencing. In J. Parry, N. Watson and M. Nesti (Eds). Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sport. New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 211-222.
EXAM:
Oral exam in one or more areas (see the list below). It is necessary to be able to speak on the topic in detail, and to react to the related questions (you can eliminate one of the topics that you do not wish to speak about before the exam + I do not exam from the topic of your essay). You need to sign in for the exam in SIS - the exams need to be finished till the end of the winter exam period. Every student has three attempts to take the exam.
1. Method of philosophy, the problem of knowledge, Plato's cave
2. Philosophy of Plato and Socrates' dialogue
3. Aristotle, virtues of a physiotherapist (or a coach)
4. Body as an instrument, instrumentality
5. Body as an object, Descartes - dualism
6. The topic of health within human existence
7. Heidegger and the concept of the human being (Dasein)
8. Authentic human existence, the meaning of human life
9. Patočka and the three movements of human existence
10. Zen and the human being and the question of health
