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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Ethics

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0702/03
Abbreviation Etika
Course title Ethics
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer

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. Morality of science
10. Business ethics
11. Medically ethics
12. Religiously ethics
13. Key works and autors of moral philosophy

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.