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Lecturer(s)
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Cajthaml Martin, prof. Ph.D.
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Kotala Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. The emergence of philosophical ethics in Socrates (the question of the good life, care for the soul, ethical intellectualism) 2. Further development of philosophical ethics in Plato 3. Aristotle's ethics (happiness, virtue, deliberate choice) 4. Thomas Aquinas' ethics 5. Kant's ethics (formalism, moral law, good will, intention, duty) 6. Utilitarianism and consequentialism
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Homework for Teaching
- 14 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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- make familiar with the three main paradigms of moral philosophy today: deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics; these paradigms will be confronted with the view point of the so-called material value ethics - explain basic criteria for the moral evaluation of actions, attitudes, and emotions implies in the said ethics paradigms - gaining the capability to develop one´s own argued and informed moral evaluation in confrontation with the three mentioned mainstream approaches to moral philosophy
Students will 1)become familiar with basic paradigms of philosophical ethics (virtue ethics, deontological ethics, utilitarianism, material value ethics) 2)be oriented in basic ethical problems and questions 3) gain orientation in basic types of ethical argumentation and they will be able to evaluate such an argumentation critically.
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Prerequisites
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High-school level of knowledge of philosophy.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Written exam
Passing a colloquium. The student is required to work with current study support for the subject.
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Recommended literature
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Anzenbacher, A. (2001). Úvod do etiky. Praha.
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Aristoteles. (1996). Etika Nikomachova. Praha.
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Cajthaml, Martin. Přednášky z Etiky. Červený Kostelec. 2023.
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J.S. Mill. (1947). Utilitarianism. London.
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Kant, I. (1976). Základy metafyziky mravů.. Praha.
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Platón. Prótagoras, Obrana Sókrata.
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Sandel, M., J. (2015). Spravedlnost: co je správné dělat. Praha.
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Sanders. Ethics & Journalism. 2004.
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Thompson, Mel. (2004). Přehled etiky. Vyd. 1. Praha.
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