Course: Ethics

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Course title Ethics
Course code KFL/EIAE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Trčka Michal, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with basic problems of ethic spheres that reflect relationship of responsibility to the other, the world and self. At this sense founds ethics any meaningful social communication and understanding of otherness of the other as an culturally or ethnically defined individual or social group. Conception of the course will also reflect practical problem of need of ethics and ethical education in present, globally differentiated society.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
  • Semestral paper - 60 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with basic problems of ethic spheres that reflect relationship of responsibility to the other, the world and self. At this sense founds ethics any meaningful social communication and understanding of otherness of the other as an culturally or ethnically defined individual or social group. Conception of the course will also reflect practical problem of need of ethics and ethical education in present, globally differentiated society.
The students will acknowledge themselves with the informations acording to the goal and the matter of the course.
Prerequisites
Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined examination, Essay

attendance and seminar work
Recommended literature
  • JIRSA, Jakub et al. Přístupy k etice III. Praha: Filosofia, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7007-482-4..
  • KOHÁK, Erazim. Svoboda, svědomí, soužití: kapitoly z mezilidské etiky. Praha SLON, 2004. ISBN 80-86429-35-0..
  • SANDEL, Michael J. Spravedlnost: co je správné dělat. Překlad Tomáš Chudý. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015. ISBN 978-80-246-3065-6..
  • SINGER, Peter. Jeden svet: etika globalizácie. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Spolku slovenských spisovateľov, 2006. ISBN 80-8061-234-X..
  • THOMPSON, Mel. Přehled etiky. Praha: Portál, 2004. ISBN 80-7178-806-6..


Study plans that include the course
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