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Ritual and its Depiction in the Material Culture of the Etruscans
Zubajová, Marína ; Titz, Pavel (advisor) ; Kysela, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the depictions of rituals on Etruscan bronze mirrors. The first part studies and defines the term "ritual". Attention is then given to the Etruscans and their religion with an emphasis on Etruscan doctrine, known as the etrusca disciplina. The text is enlivened by references of ancient Roman and Greek authors who expressed their opinion on the subject. The next chapter is dedicated to the Etruscan rituals, thematically divided into divinatory and family. After the introduction of the Etruscan bronze mirrors, in the second part a catalogue has been created through the representations of divinatory and family rituals on the Etruscan mirrors. The catalogue includes illustrations, places where they are today exposed, places and years of their discovery, dimensions and description of the scene on the mirror. Catalogued data is then analysed using charts, maps and graphs that aim to sort the collected data and to produce a better understanding of the datasets. Based on the defined Etruscan rituals, references of ancient authors and the analysed catalogue, the aim of this thesis is to discover the kind of rituals depicted in these mirrors and who carry them out. Following this, the next topic of the thesis is also to try to understand, whether this is possible to argue, if these...
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Civil disobedience in democratic and non-democratic countries
Karasová, Karolína ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Urban, Michal (referee)
Resumé in English In the first chapter, author of the thesis focused on history and creation of the term "civil disobedience" Second chapter was focused on different views on what term civil disobedience actually means and how some of the famous legal theorethics as John Rawls, Hannah Arendt and Ronald Dworkin understand it. In the third chapter, there was specification of the term civil disobedience in all its theorethical aspects in context of polemics with all the different views in previous chapter. Fourth chapter was focused on civil disobedience in democracy and its role, specifics arising from the nature of democracy. In the fifth chapter autor was focused on specifics and nature of civil disobedience in non-democratic states together with mentioning a few examples from history. Sixth chapter compared effects and mutual influence of violent or non-violent civil disobedience and its effectivity. In the seventh chapter, author described in more detail one of the examples of civil disobedience in the Czech Republic which was decided by court, for describing how the process works in real life situations.
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Roman military equipment in provicial context
Kuník, Stanislav ; Musil, Jiří (advisor) ; Kysela, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with roman military equipment with respect to various finding circumstances of civilian character. Based on the context of the find, this thesis also focus on the purpose, for which the subject was used (self-defense, hunting). There is also evaluated importance of fabricae in civilian sites, their beginnings, operation and reason of their termination. In addition, this work is complemented by a system of military workshops, for better understanding of production of military equipment in provincial areas. Goal of this thesis is assessment of roman military equipment, from civil contexts, especially from the Rhineland.
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Camera systems in public spaces - ensuring safety or endangering privacy?
Tokárová, Michaela ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Mlsna, Petr (referee)
of the Thesis This thesis deals with a problem of surveillance in public spaces. In the introduction it was specifies that the main aim of the thesis is to give a complex view on the topic of surveillance cameras in public areas from the constitutional law perspective. In the Czech republic, no further discussion has developer and legislatively, the issue is only regulated by the personal data protection law. And this regulation is not even complex, it only deals with CCTV kind of cameras, excluding the ones without storing the data. In the beggining of the thesis I explai right to privacy and under which conditions it can be limited. The core of the paper deals with camera systems themselves, their use, pros, cons and effecitivity. Later I describe opinions of some offices and states on the topic. Proportionality test of the constitutional court and the ECHR to balance right to privacy with the state responsibility for public safety was conducted in the last part of the thesis. The advantage of CCTV is that thez provie impression of security to the citizens. They discourage potential perpetrators and help to maitain security of individuals, property and public interests, as well as detection, prevention and conviction of criminals. It helps securing proofs for future trials. On top of that, CCTV...
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Semi-presidential systems
Drápelová, Hana ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Pithart, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of semi-presidential systems. As the title suggests, semi-presidential modes oscillate somewhere on the border between parliamentarism and presidentialism. Considering the fact that even the scholars have no consensus how to define this term, the whole study is conceived as a comparison of the opinions of prominent Czech as well as international constitutional lawyers and political scientists. Nowadays the necessity to define the semi-presidential model clearly becomes important because there has been a lengthy discussion after implementation of new constitutional phenomenon in the Czech Republic (the direct election of the head of the state) about how it affected the constitutional system of the state. Both the public and many prominent experts have the opinion that it is the direct presidential election that has changed the constitutional system of the Czech Republic from a purely parliamentary model to a semi- presidential model or at least, it significantly leads to it. The objectives of this study are modest. Since the number of mutually different definitions of this system from the perspective of many constitutional lawyers and political scientists is really large, it was impossible to cover such a broad topic completely, therefore this work is devoted to the...
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Self presentation of elites in the iron age
Lorencová, Kateřina ; Frank Danielisová, Alžběta (advisor) ; Kysela, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the ways of expression of social elites in the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture. The aim is to capture interpretable elements of the lifestyle of the Hallstatt society by means of soci-political models used in archaeology and to outline the current state of research the political and cultural character of these entities. Part of the work deals with the archeological record testifying abou t the existence of the higher social class - as e.g. rich barrow burials, luxurious imported goods and fortified hill-top sites known as "Fürstensitze".
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Human dignity: universal principle in particular application
Broz, Jan ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Kosek, Jan (referee)
This thesis probes the relevance of objections against newly establishing contemporary paradigm of human dignity, based on connection between dignity and Kantian views on human autonomy, which possess universalistic ambitions. First chapter introduces the fundamental concepts of human dignity during history. The chapter shows there have been evolved at least three different concepts: (i) dignity as an internal value; (ii) dignity as a social status; and (iii) dignity as a certain manner of social behavior. Second chapter consequently deals with courts` techniques regarding the dignity as a legal concept. The conclusions extrapolated from German, Israeli and South African judicial decision-making noticeably support objections raised in contemporary discourse against the abovementioned universalistic concept. In spite of these universalistic ambitions, human dignity represents concept enabling to construe individual human rights through values shared by vast majority in certain jurisdictions. This mindset naturally leads to the limitation of individual freedom rather to its expansion, in the name of an idea that ideal moral order objectively exists. Consequently, the authority of classical human rights is considerably weakened. In third chapter the effort to analyze and construe current judicial practice is...
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Decorations of roman armour and parade armour
Syřínek, Michal ; Musil, Jiří (advisor) ; Kysela, Jan (referee)
Abstracts Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts Institute for Classical archaeology Bachelor degree thesis Author: Michal Syřínek Theme: Decorations of roman armour and parade armour. Supervisor: doc. Jiří Musil Submission date: 2014 The aim of this thesis is to map the way of manufacturing of roman armour, its appearance and primarily decoration and its motifs. It will contain body armour, helmets, greaves, shields and belts. In terms of time its main aim is period of principate in terms of place, it will concentrate on all empire and beyond, wherever the foot of roman soldier stood. Roman army was the strongest and most efficient war machine of the world for almost five hundred years and its equipment reflected that. Roman equipment could bear from small and simple motifs to elaborate and stunning demonstration of craftsmanship. Although the roman equipment was decorated in countless ways, some of them were more favoured than others and the favoured ones are connected with roman army, its gods or protection against bad luck.
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Relationship between human naturalness and community
Hexner, Adam ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Kosek, Jan (referee)
Relation of human nature and community A principal theme of this diploma thesis is the community thought of about as an entity managing the law and justice with the respect to human nature followed in the work of three selected authors: Aristotle, David Hume and Friedrich A. Hayek. According to each of them, community is not unnatural but develops through either a natural or spontaneous process. All three are also critics of social contract theories. This work is successively focused on each of the mentioned philosopher, somewhere resulting in comparison. The description of creation and development of society, concept of nature and human nature and government and law function is carefully interpreted. The explanation is subsequently adjusted to the author specific justification through which is the Aristotle's teleology, Hume's moral sense theory and Hayek's emphasis on irrationality and spontaneity being reflected. Despite the divergences, the introduction of these three distinctive approaches provides a relatively uniform and authentic perspective on the relationship between human nature and the community.
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