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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Ethics

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0702/02
Abbreviation Etika
Course title Ethics
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer

Subject syllabus

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. Submission of ethical argument and its structure.
10. Thought experiments in ethics.

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.