PdF:OV3BP_DE1 History of Ethics 1-lecture - Course Information
OV3BP_DE1 History of Ethics 1-lecture
Faculty of EducationSpring 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Milan Valach, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Milan Valach, Ph.D.
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Marie Baráčková
Supplier department: Department of Civics – Faculty of Education - Timetable
- Mon 12:30–13:15 učebna 20
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- NOW( OV3BP_SDE1 History of Ethics 1-seminar )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Basics of Social Studies for Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Basics of Social Studies for Education (programme PdF, B-TV)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course students should be able to: - compare and evaluate individual theories from the history of ethical thinking
- make reasoned decisions about specific moral problems - Syllabus
- 1)Introduction to the ethics.
- 2) The importance of moral rules in the life of an individum and society as whole.
- 3) Herakleitos, sophist s doubt.
- 4) Demokritos and Epikuros.
- 5)Plato as theoretist of totalitarism.
- 6) Aristoteles - the meaning of freedom.
- 7) Stoicism- problem of fatalism.
- 8) The beginnings of christianity.
- 9) Machiavelli and the philosophy of history.
- 10) Hobbes.
- 11) Protestant ethics and the beginning of capitalism.
- 12) J. J. Rousseau- private ownership as the cause of social evil
- 13) I. Kant.
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- Lecture.
- Assessment methods
- Credit seminar. The fulfilling requirements of this course is a written essay (atleast 5 pages).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://www.ped.muni.cz/wphil/clenove/valach/valach.htm
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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