| Course title | Ethics II |
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| Course code | KFI/ETH2 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | 2 |
| Semester | Summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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| Course content |
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Week 1: Introduction: Between the hedgehog and the fox Overview of the course and the topic, explaining the method of work, logistics, literature and academic requirements Week 2: Isaiah Berlin, value pluralism, and the dangers of political utopia Required reading: Isaiah Berlin: The Pursuit of an Ideal (In: The Crooked Timber of Humanity, p.1-20) Suggested reading: Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty, section VIII The One and the Many (in: Four Essays on Liberty, 167-172) Week 3: The critique of Berlin Dworkin's case for unity of value Required: Ronald Dworkin: Do Liberal Values Conflict? (In: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, 73-90) Suggested: Bernard Williams: Liberalism and Loss (In: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, p. 91-103) Week 5 Two concepts of liberalism Required: William Galston: Liberal Pluralism (excerpts: p. 3-4; 15-28) Suggested: George Crowder: Two Concepts of Liberal Pluralism Week 6 Pluralism, toleration and perfectionism Required: Joseph Raz: Autonomy, Toleration and the Harm Principle (in: Justifying Toleraton: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives, S. Mendus (ed.), p. 155-175) Suggested: Bernard Williams: Toleration, A Political or Moral Question (In: In the Beginning There Was Deed, p. 128-138) Week 7 Between the Good and the Right: liberal neutrality Required: Ronald Dworkin: Liberalism (in: A Matter of Principle, p. 181-204) Suggested: Michael Freeden: Ideologies and Political Theory, chapter II.3.f (p. 259-275) Week 8 Rawls' political liberalism Required: John Rawls: Justice as Fairness Political, not Metaphysical Suggested: Jean Hampton: Should Political Philosophy Be Done without Metaphysics? Week 9 Political Liberalism and Perfectionism Required: Martha Nussbaum: Political Liberalism and Perfectionist Liberalism Week 10 Rawls and Relativism Required: Richard Rorty: Priority of Democracy to Philosophy (In: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, p. 257-282) Suggested: Bernard Williams: Human Rights and Relativism (In: In the Beginning There Was Deed, p. 62-74) Week 11 Feminism Required: Susan Moller Okin: Feminism and Multiculturalism: Some Tensions Suggested: Susan Moller Okin: Political Liberalism, Justice and Gender Week 12 Religion in pluralist society Required: Henry Hardy: Taking Pluralism Seriously (in: The One and the Many, G. Crowder, H. Hardy (eds.) p. 279-292) Suggested: William Galston: Must Value Pluralism and Religious Belief Collide? (in: The One and the Many, G. Crowder, H. Hardy (eds.) p. 251-262)
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book) |
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This course will focus on the nature, character, and sources of values and ideals in contemporary political societies. We will formulate and discuss different approaches, posing and trying to answer the following questions: Do values necessarily conflict? And if they do, what are the political consequences of this fact? Can (liberal) state promote a certain set of specific values, or is such practice always illegitimate and paternalistic? Are certain political values universal, or are they necessarily tied to a particular political practice and culture? Should state intervene in religious practices? If yes, to what extent?
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| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2013) | Category: Philosophy, theology | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Religious Studies (2013) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): English Language Teacher Education (2013) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Social Anthropology (2016) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2013) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): - (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): English Language Teacher Education (2013) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Social Anthropology (2013) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (2013) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy | Study plan (Version): Resocialization Pedagogy (2013) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |