Course: Fundamentals of Ethics

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Course title Fundamentals of Ethics
Course code KVS/NZETP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Konečný Karel, doc. PhDr. CSc.
  • Špiner Dušan, ThMgr. Ph.D.
  • Novotný Zdeněk, doc. PhDr. CSc.
  • Hubálek Tomáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to the issue - methodological notes (how to give your life meaning worth living for)2. Communication, expression and communication of emotion, biblical elements in our speech3. Ethical capacities, in other words virtues, human dignity, self-respect4. Conscience, developing moral judgement, creativity and initiative5. My personal situation and the answer to it, the significance of self-control6. Human personality development, confidence, autonomy, initiative, identity7. Human values - related to experience, activities, attitudes, religion, economy8. The family I live in, discovered path to one's own family9. Education towards sexual health and family life10. Career choice, love, self-control and responsibility11. Ethical aspects of environmental protection

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Homework for Teaching - 10 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Introductory reflections, the notion of ethics, the significance and purpose of ethics in history. A personalistic perspective on ethics, dimensions of the personalistic anthropology of ethics. Personality and its growth. Conscience, good and evil as fact. Responsibility in conscience. Freedom as a demonstration of human action. The moral principles and free will. Virtues, abilities to follow through, faith, hope, and love. Law as the provider of moral standards, the Divine laws. The ideal and its implementation in history and today. Motivations for human conduct, standards, and morality. The aims of ethics, the concept of the ethics of values. Basic ethical attitudes (based on openness, distance, and responsibility).
Student obtaining qualification understands ethical matter, master corresponding qualification different moral role and put through new piece of knowledge and qualification with daily life. Development social knack at ethical upbringing is presumption and discipline moral.
Prerequisites
Groundwork is educational programmed intent on upbringing to prosocialnosti. Programme pointing discovering and development identity student. Groundwork is evolving moral behaviors and search of what is correct and good and as best live.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Dialog

- Theoretical preparation for a colloquium, fulfilment of assigned sub-tasks and active work, - at the end, elaboration of a correspondence task where mastering the issues of a given discipline is proven - participation in seminars is mandatory. Checking and evaluation prior to granting a colloquium.
Recommended literature
  • Anzenbacher, A. (1994). Úvod do etiky. Praha: Academia.
  • Hodovský, I. (1992). Úvod do etiky.. Olomouc: Rektorát UP.
  • Příkaský, V. J. (2000). Učebnice základů etiky.. Kostelní Vydří: Karmelitánské nakladatelství.
  • Rotter, H. (1997). Osoba a etika: k základům morální teologie.. Brno: CDK.


Study plans that include the course
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