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The End of Pluralism in Hungary: Hungarian Propaganda in Action
Nagy, Kitti ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Špelda, Petr (referee)
This thesis studies the extent of propaganda in Hungary over a 6 years period, from 2016 to 2021. To examine the propaganda, an unsupervised machine learning, topic modeling was used to analyze 6 years of news articles from Magyar Nemzet. The analysis revealed the trending topics over the years, and also interesting combinations of keywords in the articles. During the first 3 years, the newspaper was independent, which changed in 2018 when, after its ownership change, it became openly pro-government, and started disseminating propaganda. The thesis demonstrates the current state of the Hungarian media, where most of the news agencies got acquired by the government. The analysis of Magyar Nemzet reveals that propaganda is used as a tool to strengthen the position of Viktor Orbán and to justify the government's actions.
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Charles Taylor's anthropological critique of liberalism
Boudal, Jiří ; Čapek, Jakub (advisor) ; Jirsa, Jakub (referee)
The thesis presents Charles Taylor's conception of liberalism where the negative concept of liberty is rooted in a positive moral ideal of authenticity. First of all, both the main motivations which led liberals to defend the pure negative concept of liberty and Taylor's claim that these motivations all depend on the atomistic ontology is examined. Later, this atomistic basis is refuted and Taylor's holistic approach is offered which relies mainly on concepts of the personal identity and of the so called strong evaluation. Following this, concept of authenticity is presented as the implicit ideal of modern identity. Authenticity is interpreted as a pluralistic moral ideal appreciating uniqueness although containing some general moral demands. The thesis also shows that such a concept of authenticity presupposes negative liberty. Finally, some political consequences of such a liberal theory are provided.
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Issues of Values of Education in Postmodern Society in the Early 21st Century
Šubová, Vendula ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Reichel, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to outline the issues of current conception of values as moral standards in postmodern society and to identify the consequences of this conception for education. The thesis tries to analyze current pluralist society on the base of literature, which is relevant to given subject. The thesis deals with a question, if and under what conditions is possible to determine socially valid values and if is possible to integrate them into the process of education. The text is divided into two chapters, the first of them deals with issues of postmodern society, pluralism and philosophical deconstruction and tries to indicate relations with education. The second chapter is focused on the problem of values, current educational objectives and the last part of this chapter is focused on the authority of education in current society. Key words: Value, education, value of education, postmodern, postmodernism, plurality, pluralism, deconstruction, educational objects, knowledge, philosophy.
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Printed Municipal Bulletins in Prague-West District and Beroun District
Děd, Michal ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
The diploma thesis Printed Municipal Bulletins in Prague-We st District and Beroun District deals with municipal printed bulletins as a specific kind of media. Municipal bulletins provide information about political, economic, cultural, and sport events in respective areas. They have a very important role in distribution of local news. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part offers the definition of municipal bulletins and other important terms, and a description of legal aspects of their publishing. The second part analyzes results of a questionnaire research, which was conducted with publishers of municipal bulletins in Prague-West District and Beroun District. The purpose of this research was to obtain complex information on the number of municipal bulletins that are currently published in the districts. The research focused on organizational, economic, technical, and personnel background of publishing of the municipal bulletins. This important part of the research also attempted to obtain information about the level of pluralism of provided by the bulletins. The third part contains results of in-depth interviews with persons who are in charge of publishing the bulletins. The purpose of these interviews was to obtain thorough information on how the municipal bulletins are created....
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Interest Groups, Lobbying and its Regulation in the Czech Republic
Opatrný, Aleš ; Mrklas, Ladislav (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
Diploma thesis "Interest Groups, lobbying and it's regulation in the Czech Republic" deals with the phenomenon of lobbying and it's role in democratic political processes. First part of this thesis is aimed at political theories of interest groups, various definitions of lobbying and methods of regulating lobbyists. The second part containes a comparison of lobbying regulations in various western states. The third part containes an analysis of the present state of lobbying regulation in the Czech Republic. In the final fourth part, certain methods of lobbying regulation are proposed to take place in the Czech Republic and scrutinized for compliance with the oppinion of Czech political elites and professional lobbyists.
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Changes of immigration policies in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia from 90s to the present
Musilová, Iveta ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Koubek, Jiří (referee)
The text deals with the issue of changes in immigration and integration policies of the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia during last twenty years. At first, it summarizes the theoretical opinions on immigration, integration, multiculturalism and pluralism and makes that so from the point of view of liberalism and communitarianism. Then it focuses on the development of immigration and integration policies in each country in given time period and especially on their qualitative change. Attention is paid to their key principles, legal basis and real practice. Finally, these three approaches are mutually compared and there are outlined their future perspectives.
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Issues of Values of Education in Postmodern Society in the Early 21st Century
Šubová, Vendula ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Reichel, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to outline the issues of current conception of values as moral standards in postmodern society and to identify the consequences of this conception for education. The thesis tries to analyze current pluralist society on the base of literature, which is relevant to given subject. The thesis deals with a question, if and under what conditions is possible to determine socially valid values and if is possible to integrate them into the process of education. The text is divided into two chapters, the first of them deals with issues of postmodern society, pluralism and philosophical deconstruction and tries to indicate relations with education. The second chapter is focused on the problem of values, current educational objectives and the last part of this chapter is focused on the authority of education in current society. Key words: Value, education, value of education, postmodern, postmodernism, plurality, pluralism, deconstruction, educational objects, knowledge, philosophy.
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Charles Taylor's anthropological critique of liberalism
Boudal, Jiří ; Čapek, Jakub (advisor) ; Jirsa, Jakub (referee)
The thesis presents Charles Taylor's conception of liberalism where the negative concept of liberty is rooted in a positive moral ideal of authenticity. First of all, both the main motivations which led liberals to defend the pure negative concept of liberty and Taylor's claim that these motivations all depend on the atomistic ontology is examined. Later, this atomistic basis is refuted and Taylor's holistic approach is offered which relies mainly on concepts of the personal identity and of the so called strong evaluation. Following this, concept of authenticity is presented as the implicit ideal of modern identity. Authenticity is interpreted as a pluralistic moral ideal appreciating uniqueness although containing some general moral demands. The thesis also shows that such a concept of authenticity presupposes negative liberty. Finally, some political consequences of such a liberal theory are provided.
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Authoritarian regime in Czechoslovakia in 1968
Zeman, Jakub ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Mlejnek, Josef (referee)
Goal of this thesis is to find, if Czechoslovakia in 1968, in the time of so called Prague Spring, could be defined as authoritarian regime. Typological theory of authoritarian regimes by Juan J. Linz is used. Thesis used comparative method for researching similar aspects of functionality of state machinery with aspects of Linz's theory of authoritarian regimes. Main point of interest is limited pluralism, which is most important for verification of Linz's theory in time of Prague Spring.
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The trinitarian perspectives of the theology of religions. The outline of the approach to the non-christian religions by Gavin D'Costy.
Kočí, Martin ; Červenková, Denisa (advisor) ; Bouma, David (referee)
The Trinitarian Perspectives of the Theology of Religions. The Outline of the Approache to the Non-christian Religions in Gavin D'Costa. This thesis presents an analysis of the theological work of British Catholic theologian Gavin D'Costa in the field of theology of religions. The goal of this study is the presentation of D'Costa's huge contribution to the theology of religions and critical examination of his constructive theological concept of Trinitarian Theology of Religions. In the first chapter we provide an introduction to the thought of Gavin D'Costa. We point out his philosophical and theological presuppositions, we go through his most important books and above all we introduce preliminary remarks about his theology of religions, i.e. conception of the relationship between systematic theology, theology of religions and religious studies and the notion of religion in D'Costa. The second chapter classifies D'Costa's approach within the context of contemporary theology of religions. We deal with D'Costa's critique of pluralism, inclusivism and exclusivism. Especially, the D'Costa's polemic with his former teacher John Hick is at the centre of our attention. In the third chapter we consider D'Costa's own paradigm of theology of religion which is based on the Trinitarian faith as well as respectful...
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