Jiří Chotaš, Ph.D.
Head of the research group
Research interests:
political philosophy; certain aspects of law (human rights, natural law, international law); theory of knowledge, and its relation to metaphysics; theory of higher education; Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, W. v. Humboldt, Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, John Rawls, Michael Walzer
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Education
PhD. – Philosophy, Charles University, October 1998
Dissertation title: Kant and the Reflective Theory of Self-Consciousness (Kant a reflexivní teorie sebevědomí). Advisors: Prof. Milan Sobotka (Prague), Prof. Dr. Manfred Baum (Germany)
M. Phil. – Philosophy, Charles University 1994
Engeneering. – Electrotechnology, Czech Technical University in Prague 1987
Grants and Scholarships
2009-2011 Research Grant from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (The project: a study of the concept of the state in Kant and Hegel)
2003-2005 co-worker in the research grant from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (the project: a three-volume history of political thought)
2000-2002 Research Grant from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (to produce an edition of studies and translations of German classical philosophy)
2001 Earhart Graduate Fellowship in Social Thought, University of Chicago
1995-1997 – Scholarship from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
1994-1995 – Scholarship from Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst
1993 Scholarship from Freie Universität Berlin
Teaching
2010-present: Asssistant Professor at Faculty of Arts, University in Ústí nad Labem. Courses: History of modern political thought (from Machiavelli to Tocqueville); Political thought (from Burke to totalitarianism); Contemporary political thought.
between 1998-2009: Assistant Professor at Faculty of Arts, Charles University:. Courses: Kant's Cosmology; Kant's Theory of ethics; Beauty and the Sublime in Kant; Modern political and social philosophy; Enlightenment, revolution and Romanticism; Introduction to political philosophy.
1998-2003: Assistant Professor at Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Courses: T. Hobbes, De cive; I. Kant: Toward Perpetual Peace; J.J. Rousseau: The Social Contract; Hegel's theory of state; Labour and property in modern philosophy.
Ongoing Memberships and Activities
2015 – co-editor of the Library of Modern and Contemporary Thought in the OIKOYMENH publishing house
2007 – member of the committee for doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague
2014 – member of the committee for doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy, University of Pardubice
