| Course Unit Code | 711-0702/06 |
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| Number of ECTS Credits Allocated | 3 ECTS credits |
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| Type of Course Unit * | Optional |
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| Level of Course Unit * | First Cycle |
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| Year of Study * | Second Year |
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| Semester when the Course Unit is delivered | Winter Semester |
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
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| Language of Instruction | Czech |
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| Prerequisites and Co-Requisites | Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) | Personal ID | Name |
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| FEB40 | prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc. |
| JEM03 | doc. PhDr. Martin Jemelka, Ph.D. |
| ZEM0106 | Mgr. Tomáš Zemčík, Ph.D. |
| Summary |
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| The subject of research in ethics are moral convictions and their justifications. Ethics is a theoretical reflection of morality and theories of moral behavior. As a philosophical discipline reflects not only the conduct that is related to the differentiation of right and wrong, good and evil, but also examines individual and social moral convictions, in connection with that discernment arise. Engineering Ethics, as part of the sphere of applied ethics, criticaly reflects the grounds of moral conduct, assessment and examines the background of moral values and moral convictions, the legitimacy of their reasoning, and evidence-based arguments. Engineering Ethics develops criteria which systematize normative beliefs and offers orientation in decision-making situations in which engineers and technicians are insufficient everyday moral intuitions. Engineering Ethics therefore be primarily interested in the justification of moral conviction in cases deciding the daily engineering practice, in which our intuitive moral convictions are uncertain, or contradictory and ambiguous. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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Students completing the course will be able to:
- Effectively use basic methodological approaches in ethics;
- To understand the basic ethical concepts;
- Ethically justify ours decisions in cases in which engineers and technicians are insufficient everyday moral intuitions.
- Assess the legitimacy of ethical arguments in solving conflict situations;
- Identify your own strengths and weaknesses in the present solutions ethical dilemma.
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| Course Contents |
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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
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
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| Required Reading: |
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MacIntyre, Alasdair: A Short History of Ethics (2nd edition). Routledge, 2002.
Thompson, Mel: Ethical Theory. London: Hodder Murray, 2005.
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Anzenbacher, A.: Úvod do etiky. Praha: Academia, 2001.
Robinson, Dave – Garratt, Chris: Seznamte se… Etika. Portál Praha 2004.
Thompson, Mel: Přehled etiky. Portál Praha 2004.
WHITBECK, C. ETHICS IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH (Second Edition), Cambridge University Press 2011, New York, USA, |
| Recommended Reading: |
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| Thompson, Mel: An Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics (Access to Religion and Philosophy). London: Hodder Murray, 2003. |
Anzenbacher, A.: Úvod do filozofie. Praha MF 1990.
Honneth, A.: Sociální filosofie a postmoderní etika. Praha: FÚ AV ČR, 1996.
Semrádová, I.: Úvod do etiky. Gaudeamus, 2002.
Sen, A.: Etika a ekonomie. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2002.
Tugendhat, E.: Tři přednášky o problémech etiky. Praha: MF 1998.
Alasdair Maclntyre, A Short History of Ethics, Routledge, London and New York 2009,
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Seminars, Individual consultations, Tutorials, Project work |
| Assesment methods and criteria |
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| Task Title | Task Type | Maximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks) | Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing |
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| Exercises evaluation | Credit | 85 | 85 |