Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Ethical Questions of Modern Science

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	711-0199/02
Abbreviation	EOMV
Course title	Ethical Questions of Modern Science
Credits	3
Coordinating department	Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator	prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic notions of ethics and the problem of ethic understanding
2. Tradition of ethic empiricism
3. Moral canon and independent will
4. Conscience and its interpretation
5. Ethics standards, morality, virtue, utility and sense of ethic behaviour
6. Relativity of ethically position
7. New and contemporary ethic conceptions
8. Analytic ethics
9. Definition of ethics of science
10. Ethos of science
11. Ethic standard of science
12. Ethics and scince in contemporary society
13. Freedom of scientific research
14. Ethic problems of contemporary physics, biology and IT
15. Great scientists and morality

Literature

MacIntyre, Alasdair: A Short History of Ethics (2nd edition). Routledge, 2002.
Thompson, Mel: Ethical Theory. London: Hodder Murray, 2005.

Advised literature

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

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