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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2020/2021

Introduction to Ethics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 115-0504/01
Abbreviation IE
Course title Introduction to Ethics
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. ThDr. Lucjan Klimsza, Ph.D., MBA

Osnova předmětu

1. Introduction: the basic question of ethics.
2. Controversy between congnitivists and non cognitivists. Epistemological fundaments of ethics. Cathegory: ethos, morality, autonomus, heteronomous, theonomus and definition of ethics.
3. Normative ethics and its accountability. Basic logic and construction of normative judgement.
4. Ancient Normative School: Hedonism, Virtue of Stoics Philosophy, Eudaimonism.
5. Scolastic Normative School: Ethics of Aurelius Augustinus, Ethics of Thomas Aquinas, Casuistic Ethics.
6. Enlightment Normative School: Ethics of René Descartes, Baruch Spisnoza, John Locke, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
7. Deontological Ethics of Immanuel Kant.
8. The concep of Utilitarism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuard Mill.
9. Ethics in the Shadow of Aushwitz - Ethics of Responsibility in the Thoughts of Hanah Arendt and Joachim Jeremias.
10. Postmodern Philosophy and the end of Ethics in Thoughts of Theodor Adorno and Jean-Fançoise Lyotard.
11. Ethics as a Product in Global World in Sociological Thoughts of Zygmunt Bauman.
12. Apply Ethics and its Importace in Today's Economy.
13. Business Ethics.
14. Recapitulation.

Povinná literatura

FERELL, O. C., John FRAEDRICH a Linda FERREL. Business Ethics. Ethical Decision Making and Cases. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2019. 672 s. ISBN 978-1-337-61443-6 .
HARTMAN, Laura P., Joseph DESJARDINS a Chris MACDONALD. Business Ethics. Decision Making for Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2018. 576 s. ISBN 978-1-259-41785-9 .
MELÉ CARNÉ, Domènec. Business Ethics in Action: managing human excellence in organizations. 2nd ed. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. 424 s. ISBN 978-1-137-60917-5.

Doporučená literatura

COLLINS, Denis. Business Ethics. Best Practices for Designing and Managign Ethical Organizations. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2019. 608 s. ISBN 978-1-5063-8805-2.
SCALET, Steven. Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2019. 314 s. ISBN 978-1-138-58096-1 .
TREVIÑO, Linda K. a Katherine A. NELSON. Managing Busines Ethics. Straight Talk About How To Do It Right. Hoboken: John Willey & Sons, 2017. 490 s. ISBN 978-1-119-38607-0 .