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Sport and its philosophical dimension
MAREŠ, Lukáš
The thesis is concerned with a philosophical exploration of sport and its role in a good life. It attempts to elaborate on selected key questions of the philosophy of sport discipline that also relate to traditional philosophical problems, namely, What is sport?, What is good sport?, and What is the role of sport in a good life? The main objectives of the thesis include adequately defining sport, clearly characterizing good sport, and clarifying the value of sport as a beneficial activity for human beings. The structure of the text corresponds to these three aims, with a chapter devoted to each of them. The author presents sport as an instrumentally and autotelically significant activity worthy of inclusion in the framework of a good life. In doing so, he draws primarily on philosophical works in the Western tradition of thought and on Czech and English texts belonging to the philosophy of sport discipline.
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Cortijeros en La Alpujarra: From the Lifestyle migration to Thinking about a Positive Anthropology
Varhaník Wildová, Kateřina ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Kapusta, Jan (referee) ; Szaló, Csaba (referee)
Lifestyle migrants from the affluent North move to the Mediterranean region intensively from the 80's. Lifestyle migration to Spain takes different forms: here we meet rich yacht owners in Marbella, retired people in the housing complexes in Almuñecar, or surfers in Tarifa. This work focused on people, who chose their new place in the region of La Alpujarra. They live in the remote houses called cortijos, which gave name to their inhabitants - cortijeros. Their lifestyles are the subject of this work, together with more general strategies practiced in lifestyle migration, the skills needed in such a move, and values they pursue. Ten years of research enabled to get together both, opinions and plans of the newcomers in the region, and their activities, stories, and imprints in the real world. I try to present different perspectives: the lens of lifestyle migration, counter-urbanization, material culture anthropology, history, positive psychology. At the end, I propose to think a positive anthropology that would focus on studying such practices that seemed to work towards understanding "the good life"; that work towards both individual well-being, and creating social structures considerate to humans and the environment.
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Cortijeros en La Alpujarra: From the Lifestyle migration to Thinking about a Positive Anthropology
Varhaník Wildová, Kateřina ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Kapusta, Jan (referee) ; Szaló, Csaba (referee)
Lifestyle migrants from the affluent North move to the Mediterranean region intensively from the 80's. Lifestyle migration to Spain takes different forms: here we meet rich yacht owners in Marbella, retired people in the housing complexes in Almuñecar, or surfers in Tarifa. This work focused on people, who chose their new place in the region of La Alpujarra. They live in the remote houses called cortijos, which gave name to their inhabitants - cortijeros. Their lifestyles are the subject of this work, together with more general strategies practiced in lifestyle migration, the skills needed in such a move, and values they pursue. Ten years of research enabled to get together both, opinions and plans of the newcomers in the region, and their activities, stories, and imprints in the real world. I try to present different perspectives: the lens of lifestyle migration, counter-urbanization, material culture anthropology, history, positive psychology. At the end, I propose to think a positive anthropology that would focus on studying such practices that seemed to work towards understanding "the good life"; that work towards both individual well-being, and creating social structures considerate to humans and the environment.
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Comparison of Aristotle's concept of eudaimonia and chosen modern concepts of a good life
HAVLOVÁ, Eliška
This thesis deals with concepts of good life. Good life could be comprehended as happy life or eudaimonic life. It is divided into three parts. First part is about philosopher Aristotle's concept eudaimonia. I worked with his book Nicomachean Ethics translated to czech language by Antonín Kříž. Second part describes conception of good life of Martin E. P. Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's conception flow. Third part compares conceptions described in the previous parts. Goals of this thesis are to explain the concept of Aristotle's eudaimonia. Then to explain some basic points in positive psychology, then to compare Aristotle's concept of eudaimonia with Seligman's and Csikszentmihalyi's concept of positive psychology.
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