Politics, Religion and Law in Early Modern East-Central Europe WF-FI-CLERICI-WO
Course content
1. Introduction: methodological issues in Philosophy and History
2-3. Faith, Heresy and the Just War: Jan Hus and Paulus Vladimiri at the Council of Constance (1415)
4-5. Heresy and political rebellion: Lutherans and Anti-Trinitarians in east-central Europe during the Wars of Religion (16th century)
6-7. War and/or peace in the Counter-Reformation: theoretical and practical issues during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
8-9. The Polish "Golden Freedom" in European context
10-11. Natural Law and the Law of Nations in early modern central Europe during the Enlightenment: the case of Prussia
12-13. Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Considerations on the Government of Poland (1772)
14-15. The Polish Constitution of 3 may 1791 in European context
Poziom przedmiotu
Symbol/Symbole kierunkowe efektów uczenia się
Efekty kształcenia
Knowledge – knowledge of the meaning and the intellectual uses of key political concepts as just war, heresy, freedom, sovereignty, democracy, State, equality and rights in the early modern period of the history of Eastern and Central Europe.
Competence – the ability to explore the rival theoretical frameworks of the intellectual “traditions” of absolutism, constitutionalism, natural law, liberalism and egalitarianism, through the analysis of important texts and documents set into their historical and cultural context.
Skills - openness towards the recognition of historical character of development of some important political institutions as well as the modern political thought.
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