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Lecturer(s)
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Cajthaml Martin, prof. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Origin of moral philosophy in Socrates (the question of good life, care of the soul, moral intellectualism) 2. Further development of moral philosophy in Plato 3. Aristotle´s moral philosophy (happiness, virtue, purposive choice) 4. Kant´s moral philosophy (formalism, moral law, good will, intention, duty) 5. Utilitarianism and consequentialism 6. Material value ethics (M. Scheler, D. von Hildebrand)
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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
Pass colloquium. The student is required to work with the learning objects, which have been created for the concrete subject and are available for authorized students in LMS EDIS.
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Recommended literature
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Aristoteles. (1996). Etika Nikomachova. Rezek, Praha.
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Cajthaml, M. (2019). The Moral Philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand. Washington.
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D. von Hildebrand. Ethik.
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J.S. Mill. (1947). Utilitarianism. London.
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Kant, I. (1976). Základy metafyziky mravů.. Praha: Svoboda.
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Patočka Jan. (1991). Sokrates.. Praha.
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Platón. Gorgias, Obrana Sókrata.
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Scheler, M., Scheler, M., & Frings, M. S. (2000). Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die Materiale Wertethik: neuer Versuch der Grundlegung eines ethischen Personalismus. Bonn: Bouvier.
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