OVk106 Ethics-lecture

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.5. 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
Course objectives
The aim is to help students gain insight into current ethical theories in connection with 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) Postmodernism and moral crisis 4)Humanistic morality and conscience (E.Fromm) 5) Ontology and Ethics. The moral challenge of biophilic economy. Climate ethics. 6) Professional ethics. The Ethics of Teaching. 7)LOHAS lifestyle. Business Ethics. 8) Prosocial education from R. Roche Olivar. 9) The Ethics of technology. 10)Feminism and Ecofeminism. 11) Political ethics. 12) Moral issues in fiction.
Literature
    required literature
  • Dejiny etického myslenia v Európe a USA. Edited by Anna Remišová. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2008, 894 s. ISBN 9788081011030. info
    recommended literature
  • 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
  • A study in business ethics. Edited by Rituparna Raj. Rev. ed. Mumbai [India]: Himalaya Pub. House, 2009, 166 p. ISBN 9788184880960. info
  • A companion to ethics. Edited by Peter Singer. 1st ed. Malden: Blackwell Pub., 1991, xxii, 565. ISBN 0631187855. info
Teaching methods
Lecture.
Assessment methods
The fulfilling requirements of this course is a written essay (atleast 10 pages), based on three monographies.
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/ped/jaro2025/OVk106/index_nppzn.qwarp
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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