PdF:OVp106N Ethics-lecture - Course Information
OVp106N Ethics-lecture
Faculty of EducationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Petr Jemelka, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Slavomír Lesňák, PhD. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Petr Jemelka, Dr.
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jitka Autratová
Supplier department: Department of Civics – Faculty of Education - 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
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Civics (programme PdF, N-OV2) (2)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Civics (programme PdF, N-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Civics (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- Course objectives
- The aim is to help students gain insight into current ethical theories in connection with the contemporary moral problems of contemporary society.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course the student will be able to: - to perceive different ethical contexts of contemporary problems - to make reasoned decisions on specific moral problems - to show an overview of current ethical theories - compare contemporary ethical theories to solving a particular problem
- Syllabus
- 1) The crisis and morality. 2) Example of failure of modernism - Nazism , Communism . The question of guilt by K. Jaspers. 3) Humanistic morality and conscience (E.Fromm). 4) Postmodernism and moral crisis. 5) Feminist ethics. 6) Professional ethics. The Ethics of Teaching. 7) Business Ethics. 8) Bioethics. 10) Ethics of technology. 11) Political ethics. The ethics of war. 12) Moral issues in fiction.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- MARKOŠ, Ján. Medzi dobrom a zlom : 16 etických dilem, pred ktorými môžete raz stáť i vy. Vydanie prvé. Bratislava: N Press, s.r.o., 2020, 307 stran. ISBN 9788099925503. info
- LESŇÁK, Slavomír and Barbora VACKOVÁ. Jan Patočka a naše doba. Sborník příspěvků mezinárodní konference (Jan Patočka and Our Age. Proceedings of the International Conference). první. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2018, 190 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8958-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-8958-2018. publikace info
- Ethics in the real world : 82 brief essays on things that matter. Edited by Peter Singer. Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017, xvi, 359. ISBN 9780691178479. info
- VALACH, Milan. Češi v neklidné době. 1. vyd. Brno: L. Marek, 2006, 306 s. ISBN 8086263754. info
- A companion to ethics. Edited by Peter Singer. 1st ed. Malden: Blackwell Pub., 1991, xxii, 565. ISBN 0631187855. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture and seminar.
- Assessment methods
- The fulfilling requirements of this course is a) a written essay (at least 7 pages), based on two books from the list; b) active participation in class (project, presentation, discussion).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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