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Ethics and Aesthetics

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 226-0511/02
Abbreviation EE
Course title Ethics and Aesthetics
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Architecture
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Marek Sibinský, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Aesthetics, building aesthetics, historical development of aesthetics
2. Golden ratio, golden rectangle, golden triangle, golden spiral, Fibonacci sequence
3. Marcus | Vitruvius Pollo, Renaissance Aesthetics (Palladio, Alberti)
4. Formalistic and structuralist aesthetics
5. Psychological interpretations of art, myth and art, phenomenology,
6. Basic ethical concepts
7. Tradition of empirical ethics
8. Moral principle and free will, conscience and its interpretation
9. Norms, morality, virtue, happiness and the sense of ethical behavior
10. Relativization of ethical positions, new and contemporary ethical concepts
11. Analytical ethics
12. Ethics of science, business, economic ethics, ethics of an architect
13. Critical theory of society, automata, ethics of advertising, Kosík, Blažek
14. Summary, presentation of essays

E-learning

LMS Moodle: 226-0511/02 Ethics and Aesthetics

Povinná literatura

TATARKIEWICZ, W. Dějiny estetiky III. (Novoveká estetika). Tatran. Bratislava, 1991.
TATARKIEWICZ, W. Dějiny estetiky I. (Staroveká estetika). Tatran. Bratislava, 1985.
TATARKIEWICZ, W. Dějiny estetiky II. (Stredoveká estetika). Tatran. Bratislava, 1988.
GILBERTOVÁ, K. E., KUHN, H. Dějiny estetiky. Praha 1965. Praha, 1965.

Doporučená literatura

ECO, U. Dějiny krásy. Praha, Argo, 2005. ISBN 80-7203-677-7.
ECO, U. Dějiny ošklivosti. Praha, Argo, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7203-893-0.
Estetika na dlani. Olomouc: Rubico, 2002.