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.
- 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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