Course: Methodology of Civics- Education for Citizenship (How to be a Good Citizen). Ethics

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Course title Methodology of Civics- Education for Citizenship (How to be a Good Citizen). Ethics
Course code KVS/XETI
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
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.
Course content
The contents of this seminar is to highlight the structure of ethical phenomena (phenomenology of moral), realm of ethical values (axiology of morals) and the freedom of will issue (metaphysics of moral). It is about Man in the age of world stabilization and his respect for life. The role of the seminar of methodology of Civil Ethics Education is to intermediate the quality of ethical thinking to students and to bring them to a point where they themselves feel the need for more complex guidance in issues, which provoke them, and the solution of which is a base for value and success in their lives.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
Ethics - its notion and its role. Outline of its historical development. Contemplative and normative ethics. Philosophical ethics. Egotism and altruism. The principle of ethical values. Plato, Kant and Scheler. Eudaimonism and utilitarianism, power and morality, social spect and existentialist attitude.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Student elaborates each given and lectured topic on approx 1-2 pages, which also makes a dialogue topic for a colloquium
Recommended literature
  • Hartmann, N. (2002). Struktura etického fenoménu.. Praha: Academia.
  • Hrehová, H. (2005). Etika - sociálne vzťahy - spoločnosť.. Bratislava: Veda-SAV.
  • Ricken, F. (1995). Obecná etika.. Praha: OIKOYMENH.
  • Rotter, H. (1997). Osoba a etika: k základům morální teologie.. Brno: CDK.
  • Sokol, J., Pinc, Z. (2003). Antropologie a etika.. Praha: Triton.
  • TISCHNER, J. (1998). Etika solidarity.. Bratislava: Kalligram.


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