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Lecturer(s)
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Cajthaml Martin, prof. Ph.D.
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Kotala Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Origin of moral philosophy in Socrates (the question of good life, care of the soul, moral intellectualism) 2. Further development of moral philosophy in Plato 3. Aristotle´s moral philosophy (happiness, virtue, purposive choice) 4. The ethics of Thomas Aquinas 5. Kant's ethics (formalism, the moral law, good will, intention, duty) 6. Utilitarianism and consequentialism
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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- make familiar with the three main paradigms of moral philosophy today: deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics - explain basic criteria for the moral evaluation of actions, attitudes, and emotions implies in the said ethics paradigms - gaining the capability to develop one´s own argued and informed moral evaluation in confrontation with the three mentioned mainstream approaches to moral philosophy
Students will 1) become familiar with basic paradigms of philosophical ethics (virtue ethics, deontological ethics, utilitarianism) 2) be oriented in basic ethical problems and questions 3) gain orientation in basic types of ethical argumentation and they will be able to evaluate such an argumentation critically.
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Prerequisites
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High-school level of knowledge of philosophy.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Written exam
Passing a colloquium. The student is required to work with current study support for the subject.
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Recommended literature
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Anzenbacher, A. (2001). Úvod do etiky. Praha.
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Aristoteles. (1996). Etika Nikomachova. Praha.
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Cajthaml, Martin. Přednášky z Etiky. Červený Kostelec. 2023.
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J.S. Mill. (1947). Utilitarianism. London.
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Kant, I. (1976). Základy metafyziky mravů.. Praha.
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Platón. Prótagoras, Obrana Sókrata.
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Sandel, M., J. (2015). Spravedlnost: co je správné dělat. Praha.
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Sanders. Ethics & Journalism. 2004.
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Thompson, Mel. (2004). Přehled etiky. Vyd. 1. Praha.
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