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Course title Ethics
Course code KFI/ETIKA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Prázný Aleš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Ethics and communication. What is ethics? The birth of ethics in antiquity: ethics, politics and philosophy. Socrates's ethical reversal. Plato's dialectic ethics. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Nietzsche: Reassessment of values. Ontology as ethics - Lévinas. Technology and ethics. Ethical dimension of politics Ethical presumptions of human rights Arendt´s concept of political action Pathological forms of politics - totalitarianism

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work-related activities
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to introduce the basic philosophical issues of ethics in regard to politics. An attempt will be made to define (historically as well as systematically) the concept of ethics or moral reality and its relevance to politics. That knowledge will provide the basis for various special ethics. The theme will be the basic position of ethics in antiquity (Sophists, Plato), its reception and amplification in the periods following until the present days (new concepts of ethics especially after the political crisis of the 20th century). Special attentions will be paid to conceptions of political liberty and action by H. Arendt.
Students will encounter selected texts from the recommended literature and will be able to formulate philosophically erudite questions that identify contemporary problems of ethical nature.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic test, Discussion

Active participation during lectures and seminars is required (Attendance must be 80% or more). Credit will depend upon two written tests and a seminar paper on a consulted topic (10 pages in length).
Recommended literature
  • ANZENBACHER, A. Úvod do etiky. Praha : Academia, 2001.
  • Arendt, Hannah. O revoluci. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7298-403-9.
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Etika Nikomachova. Praha : Rezek, 1996.
  • ČAPEK, Jakub. Přístupy k etice II.. Praha, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7007-442-8.
  • Hannah Arendt. Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution. Mariner Books, 1972. ISBN 978-0156232005.
  • HEGEL, G. W. F. Základy filosofie práva. Praha : Academia, 1992.
  • Herold, Vilém . Dějiny politického myšlení.. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7298-468-8.
  • HUME, D. Zkoumání lidského rozumu. Praha : Svoboda, 1996.
  • HUSSERL, E. Einleitung in die Ethik. Husserliana, Band XXXVII. Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
  • JONAS, H. Princip odpovědnosti. Praha : Oikúmené, 1997.
  • KANT, I. Kritika praktického rozumu. Praha : Svoboda, 1996.
  • LÉVINAS, E. Totalita a nekonečno. Praha : Oikúmené, 1997.
  • NIETZSCHE, F. Genealogie morálky. Praha : Aurora, 2002.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Lidské, příliš lidské : kniha pro svobodné duchy. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7298-404-6.
  • RICKEN, F. Obecná etika. Praha : Oikúmené, 1995.
  • RICOUER, P. Filosofie vůle I. Praha : Oikúmené, 2001.
  • RICOUER, P. Ricouer As Another: The Ethics of Subjectivity (Richard A. Cohen and James I. Marsh, editors)..
  • ROTTER, H. Osoba a etika. Brno : CDK, 1997.
  • SMITH, A. Teorie mravních citů. Praha : Liberální institut, 2005.
  • SPEAMANN, R. Štěstí a vůle k dobru. Praha : Oikúmené, 1998.
  • ŠPINKA, Štěpán. Přístupy k etice I.. Praha, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7007-430-5.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2015) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2013) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
University of Pardubice, date of update: 02.07.2024 23:50. Data created for academic year 2016/2017