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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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- Pre-understanding of moral reality and ethical concepts applied in everyday communication - Socratic reflection - empiricist ethics, naturalistic reconstruction of ethical concepts, hedonism and utilitarianism - free will, Kant's reconstruction of natural scientific objectivity, Kantian ethics, categorical imperative, notion of autonomy and purpose - conscience before and after the act - morality and manners, justification of norms, cultural relativism, fundamentalism - the classical notion of virtue. Neo-Aristotelianism - modern relativization of morality by Marx, Nietzsche and Freud - phenomenological and existentialist ethics, ethics of discourse and ethics of communication, critical rationalism - logical and linguistic analysis of moral language. Intuitionism, positivism, emotivism, descriptivism and prescriptivism.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Participation in classes
- 28 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 50 hours per semester
- Term paper
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for course credit
- 22 hours per semester
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| - characterises the positions of ancient and Christian ethics |
| - characterises the positions of ancient and Christian ethics |
| - defines empiricist ethics and distinguish its basic trends |
| - defines empiricist ethics and distinguish its basic trends |
| - defines the basic concepts of rationalist ethics |
| - defines the basic concepts of rationalist ethics |
| - distinguishes between teleological and deontological moral evaluation of actions |
| - distinguishes between teleological and deontological moral evaluation of actions |
| - lists the basic approaches to logical and linguistic analysis of ethical language statements |
| - lists the basic approaches to logical and linguistic analysis of ethical language statements |
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| - evaluates to what extent the scientistic picture of the world of Western culture is compatible with its institutions and the theoretical assumptions of their functioning |
| - evaluates to what extent the scientistic picture of the world of Western culture is compatible with its institutions and the theoretical assumptions of their functioning |
| - identifies correlations between ethical norms and socio-economic conditions in a given community |
| - identifies correlations between ethical norms and socio-economic conditions in a given community |
| - recognizes that the media evaluate identical actions of different actors teleologically and deontologically and, as a result, qualify them morally differently |
| - recognizes that the media evaluate identical actions of different actors teleologically and deontologically and, as a result, qualify them morally differently |
| - analyses individual legal norms and legislative bodies in terms of the moral and ethical concepts they instantiate |
| - analyses individual legal norms and legislative bodies in terms of the moral and ethical concepts they instantiate |
| - registers and then analyses the tensions between economic developments and the existing values and norms of a given cultural area and assesses how new global ethical movements contribute to reducing these tensions by adjusting the value and/or ontological system |
| - registers and then analyses the tensions between economic developments and the existing values and norms of a given cultural area and assesses how new global ethical movements contribute to reducing these tensions by adjusting the value and/or ontological system |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Lecturing |
| Lecturing |
| Individual work of students |
| Individual work of students |
| Skills |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Individual work of students |
| Individual work of students |
| Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book) |
| Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book) |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Written examination |
| Written examination |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
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Recommended literature
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Anzenbacher, Arno. Úvod do etiky. Vyd. v tomto překladu 2., V nakl. Academia 1. Praha : Academia, 2001. ISBN 80-200-0917-5.
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Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Indianapolis, 1999.
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Blackburn, Simon. Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics. Oxford, 2003.
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Cahn, Steven - Markie, Peter. Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues. Oxford, 2015.
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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. Cambridge, 2012.
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Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. New York, 2007.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals. Oxford, 2008.
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Plato. Republic. Oxford, 2008.
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Singer, Peter. Practical Ethics. Cambridge, 2011.
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