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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2018/2019

Ethics

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0112/07
Abbreviation Etika
Course title Ethics
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer

Osnova předmětu

1. Formation and establishment of ethics as a discipline.
2. Basic ethical problems and concepts.
3. Basic methodological approaches in ethics (descriptive ethics, normative ethics, meta-ethics, applied ethics).
4. Main functions of morality, justification of moral sentences.
5. The concept of moral conduct.
6. Historical overview of ethical theory.
7. The obligation and the moral law: deontological ethics.
8. Utilitarianism.
9. Virtues ethics
10. Submission of ethical argument and its structure.
11 . Thought experiments in ethics

Povinná literatura

MacIntyre, Alasdair: A Short History of Ethics (2nd edition). Routledge, 2002.
Thompson, Mel: Ethical Theory. London: Hodder Murray, 2005.
WHITBECK, C. ETHICS IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH (Second Edition), Cambridge University Press 2011, New York, USA, Second edition published 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-89797-6 .
FLEDDERMANN, CH, B. Engineering Ethics, Pearson Education Limited 2014, Edinburgh, ISBN 10:1-292-01252-8.

Doporučená literatura

Thompson, Mel: An Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics (Access to Religion and Philosophy). London: Hodder Murray, 2003.