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Introduction of Ethics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 115-4603/01
Abbreviation ZE
Course title Introduction of Ethics
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. ThDr. Lucjan Klimsza, Ph.D., MBA

Subject syllabus

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.

Literature

DESJARDINS, Joseph R. An introduction to business ethics. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2020. ISBN 978-1-260-54808-2.
FERELL, O. C.; FRAEDRICH, John and FERREL, Linda. Business Ethics. Ethical Decision Making and Cases. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2019. ISBN 978-1-337-61443-6 .
MELÉ CARNÉ, Domènec. Business Ethics in Action: managing human excellence in organizations. 2nd ed. London: Red Globe Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-137-60917-5.

Advised literature

BLÁHA, Jiří; KLIMSZA, Lucjan; LOKAJ, Aleš a NIEROSTEK, Lech. Multidimensional Analysis of Ethical Leadership for Business Development. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 2021, 10(1). ISSN 2239-5938 .
COLLINS, Denis. Business Ethics. Best Practices for Designing and Managign Ethical Organizations. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5063-8805-2.
SCALET, Steven. Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2019. ISBN 978-1-138-58096-1 .


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