Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D.

Research Areas

• Ancient Philosophy

• Ethics

Courses

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Contact Information and Office Hours

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Work Experience

• 2015–2016: UNCE member at Centre of Phenomenology Studies, Faculty of Humanities  

• 2012–2014: Philosophical Investigations of Human Mortality and Originarity

• 2008–2010: Philosophical Foundations of the Anthropological Meaning of Time

• 2009: Specific Research, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

Education

• 2006–2012: Ph.D., Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague.

  Thesis title: Human Nature as a Man’s Task. Study of Human Nature in the Nicomachean Ethics.(Supervisors: prof. Jan Sokol, doc. Štěpán Špinka, Mgr. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.)

• 2004–2006: Mgr., Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.

  Master thesis title: Human Nature in the Context of Aristotle’s conception of pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics (Supervisors: doc. Štěpán Špinka, doc. Filip Karfík)

• 1998–2003: Bc., Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague.

  Bachelor thesis title: Selected Novel Characters in F. M. Dostoyevsky in the Perspective of Phenomenological Philosophy of E. Lévinas (Supervisors: prof. Jan Sokol, Mgr. Jakub Češka, Ph.D.)

Publications

• Duše jako místo dění světa. Studie k pojetí (lidské) duše u Aristotela (Soul as a Place of the World-coming-into-being. A Study of Aristotle's Conception of the Soul), Prague, Togga 2014

• Lidská přirozenost jako úkol člověka. Filosofická interpretace Etiky Níkomachovy (Human Nature as a Man’s Task. Philosophical Interpretation of Nicomachean Ethics), Prague, Togga 2011

• Marian Kuna: Ethics and Politics in the Perspective of A. MacIntyre (critical review) in: Filosofie dnes, vol. 4, No. 2 (2012)

• Smrtelnost v Aristotelově Etice Níkomachově (Mortality in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics) in: J. Marek (ed.), Temporality and Mortality II. Studies of Temporal Constitution of Human Existence, Prague, Togga 2010

• Fascinace neviditelností (Fascination by Invisibility) in: J. Novotný (ed.), Fascination by Invisibility. Studies of Interpretative Variety of Work of Jaroslav Havlíček, Prague, Togga 2009

• Čas v kontextu Etiky Níkomachovy (Time in context of Nicomachean Ethics) in: J. Novotný (ed.), Temporality and Mortality I. Studies of Temporal Constitution of Human Existence, Prague, Togga 2009