doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.

Jakub Jirsa holds his PhD in Philosophy from the Central European University. He was Jan Pato膷ka Visiting Fellow at the Institut f眉r die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Wien) and visiting scholar at the Faculty of Classics (University of Cambridge). Jakub Jirsa publishes on ancient philosophy as well as modern ethics and political philosophy; see his profile on or . He has co-authored and edited several volumes including Obec a du拧e. K Plat贸nov臎 praktick茅 filosofie (2014), On Liberal Education and the Autopoiesis of Universities (2023), P艡铆stupy k etice III (2016) or Idea university (2015). Jakub is currently on leave from 糖心原创.

Specializations:

Ethics, Political Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Recent publications (selected):

  • Jirsa, Jakub (ed.), On Liberal Education and the Autopoiesis of Universities, Karolinum, Praha 2023.
  • On Universities and Contemporary Society: The Issue of Trust, in: V. Kolman, T. Mur谩r (eds.), Devouring One鈥檚 Own Tail: Autopoiesis in Perspective, Karolinum, Praha 2022, 228-247.
  • The Sublunary Domain (Chapters 2鈥3,392a31鈥393a8), in: P. Gregori膰, G. Karamanolis (eds.), Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos), Cambridge University Press 2020, 62-79.
  • The concept of 峤呄佄肯 between Aristotle鈥檚 two Ethics, Listy filologick茅 144, 1-2, 2021, 7-41.
  • The Structure of Courage in the Laches, Meno and Protagoras, Elenchos, vol. 42, no. 1, 2021, pp. 143-164.
  • Dialog 鈥濳rit贸n鈥. Lze p艡emlouvat z谩kony? Filosofick媒 膷asopis 68, 2020/3, 387-406.
  • Kdo je Alkibiad茅s? O r暖zn媒ch identit谩ch v dialogu Alkibiad茅s v臎t拧铆. Reflexe, 2019 (57), 5-33.
  • Divine Activity and Human Life. Rhizomata, 2017, 5 (2), 210-238.
  • Jakub Jirsa (ed.), P艡铆stupy k etice III, Filosofia, Praha 2016.