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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KFR
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METI3
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Title
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Ethics III
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
2
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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Course credit prior to examination
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Yes
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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3 / 10
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0 / 0
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0 / 10
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
0
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Evaluation scale for credit before examination |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KFI/METI3
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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Requirements on student
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Požadavkem k atestaci je aktivní účast na semináři a písemná práce v rozsahu 5-10 stran.
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Content
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to selected problems of ethics from antiquity to the 20th century. Ethics is presented here as the basic human endeavor to answer rationally the questions of the good life. On the basis of the lectures, the student will be able to distinguish certain historical emphases on ethical issues, will be able to identify the basic problems of the various schools of ethics, and will be able to understand them in the historical context of the times. The course will introduce the student to the basic terms and stages of ethical thought. The course selectively covers thinkers and issues in the field of ethics from antiquity to the 20th century.
1. Introduction to the problem of ethics
2. Socrates
3. Plato
4. Aristotle
5. Epicureanism, Stoicism and scepticism6.
6. Christianity and ethics
7. Augustine
8. Kant's moral philosophy
9. Hegel
10. Marx
11. Nietzsche
12. J. S. Mill
13. Ethics in the analytic tradition
The ethics seminar will focus on the ethics of attention:
Is it really the case that thinking about issues of morality makes one a better person? After all, to develop a theoretical discipline whose goal is not the theory itself but right action, the good life, etc., is not self-evident. And what if the field of ethics, as we usually know it, does not take the form of fractious moral dilemmas that could be debated at length? It happens, moreover, that when we ask a person we consider good why he or she did this or that good deed, he or she will say that he or she simply could not have done otherwise. Findings like these force us to think not only about the relationship between contemplative and practical attitudes in ethics, but also about what is an ethically relevant situation for us. The starting point of our inquiry will be the "ethics of attention." For not only our actions and choices, but also the options we choose between, and even the meaning of what we perceive and the way we talk about things, are largely co-determined by whether and what we pay attention to. We will first take a selective look at how the notion of attention is elaborated in the philosophical tradition. In doing so, we will see that this concept allows us to think about the relation of humans to reality and to time, the relation of one person to another, or even the relation of an individual or a community to what is beautiful or sacred. Attention is not only active concentration and absorption (as St. Augustine and his followers understand it), but also the ability to be attracted by something or someone. This passive (and to a certain extent bodily) aspect of attention has been noticed more by modern authors such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In this seminar we will try to confront the notion of attention in its various aspects, among other things by studying phenomenological authors. The focus of the seminar readings, however, will be mainly on the ethical texts of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch (in available or working translations). The requirement for attestation is active participation in the seminar and either a paper presented and handed in or a written work of about 5 pages consulted in advance.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Weil, S. "Bojujeme za spravedlnost?". in: T. Hejduk, K. Pacovská (eds.), Filosofie lásky a přátelství,, 2016.
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Basic:
Weil, S. Duchovní autobiografie, in: Salve, 2/20, přek. Irena Gobelová. Praha, 2013.
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Basic:
MerleauPonty, Maurice. Fenomenologie vnímání. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7298-485-5.
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Basic:
Murdoch, Iris. The sovereignty of Good. London: Routledge, 1971. ISBN 978-0-415-25399-4.
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Basic:
Weil, S. Tíže a milost, přel. A Beguivin. Kalich, Praha, 2009.
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Basic:
O. Koupil, M. Kyralová, P. Mareš. Vyznání. Kostelní Vydří, 2015.
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Recommended:
Karfíková, L. Attention in Augustine, in: Rhizomata2021, str. 247-270.
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Recommended:
Caston,V. Connecting traditions: Augustine and the Greeks on intentionality, in: D. Perler ( vyd.), Ancient and medieval theories of intentionality, str. 23-45.. Leiden, 2001.
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Recommended:
Ricoeur, Paul:. Čas a vyprávění I. Praha, OIKOYMENH 2000..
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Recommended:
Caprioglio Panizza, S. The Ethics of A ttention, Engaging the Real withIris Murdoch and Simone Weil. Routledge, New York, London, 2022.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
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Teaching methods |
- Přednášení
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Assessment methods |
- Written examination
- Discussion
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