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Niccolò Machiavelli and Tommaso Campanella
Šilarová, Veronika ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Žáčková, Magdalena (referee)
The aim of this work is to analyse and to confront ideas and views of Niccolò Machiavelli and Tommaso Campanella, who are both very important Italian political philosophers. The works that will be analysed are Machiavelli's political treatise Il Principe (The Prince) and Campanella's utopian treatise La città del sole (The City of the Sun). This work is divided into four chapters. First chapter is a short introduction and is followed by the focal part of the work. In the second chapter is presented Niccolò Machiavelli's life and work as well as the analyse of his views on chosen topics, which are: ideal prince, ethics and religion. In the third chapter is presented Tommaso Campanella's life, work and also analyse of his views on chosen topics. Last chapter has concluding character, confronts Machiavelli's ideas with Campanella's and points out differences and similiarities betwen both authors.
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Notions of Agonism - Agonistic Pluralism in the works of Chantal Mouffe and John Gray
Šíma, Jan ; Bíba, Jan (advisor) ; Znoj, Milan (referee)
Notions of Agonism - Agonistic Pluralism in the works of Chantal Mouffe and John Gray Abstract A part of political theory, which considers conflict to be a constitutive feature of politics, is known under the term agonism. The aim of this thesis is to introduce two representatives of agonist theory who nevertheless don't share the same ideological basis - Chantal Mouffe and John Gray. The first part of this thesis is thus devoted to theoreticians who influenced these authors and developed ideas which can help us to easily grasp their notions of agonism. In the case of Chantal Mouffe, we find an influence of Carl Schmitt as well as the need to settle with previous marxist tradition, while liberal agonism of John Gray develops from a critical evaluation of the liberal tradition and from the consequences of value pluralism in the works on Isaiah Berlin. In the next part, this thesis will focus on arguments used by both authors in order to challenge the political theory of John Rawls and on the way in which they distance themselves from his communitarian critics. At the end of this thesis I will confront the positions of both of these authors with the intention to discover to what extent their thought results in two different conceptions of politics.
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Niccolò Machiavelli and Tommaso Campanella
Šilarová, Veronika ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Žáčková, Magdalena (referee)
The aim of this work is to analyse and to confront ideas and views of Niccolò Machiavelli and Tommaso Campanella, who are both very important Italian political philosophers. The works that will be analysed are Machiavelli's political treatise Il Principe (The Prince) and Campanella's utopian treatise La città del sole (The City of the Sun). This work is divided into four chapters. First chapter is a short introduction and is followed by the focal part of the work. In the second chapter is presented Niccolò Machiavelli's life and work as well as the analyse of his views on chosen topics, which are: ideal prince, ethics and religion. In the third chapter is presented Tommaso Campanella's life, work and also analyse of his views on chosen topics. Last chapter has concluding character, confronts Machiavelli's ideas with Campanella's and points out differences and similiarities betwen both authors.
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Vzestup náboženství v mezinárodních vztazích (Religion's Rise in IR)
Dravecký, Pavol ; Kratochvíl, Petr (advisor) ; Minárik, Pavol (referee)
This work attempts to identify the sources of the difference between the Christian Left and Right; How is it possible that people who share such a detailed creed can be so strictly opposed when it comes to politics? My hypothesis is that the conflict is engendered by different conceptions of will and the body. To test this hypothesis, I first present a brief history of the relationship between Christianity and politics up to the present state of the Christian versions of Right and Left, to finally find that while their understanding of human will is virtually identical, the human body is seen in opposing terms. Nevertheless, I equally conclude that the division between Right and Left is inaccurate, because both strive for the same - to prevent the monopolization of power by either the State or the Market.
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