226-0511/01 – Ethics and Aesthetics (EE)
| Gurantor department | Department of Architecture | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Mgr. Marek Sibinský, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Mgr. Marek Sibinský, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FAST | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Expertise:
- basic knowledge of the history of aesthetics
- Basic overview of aesthetics and ethics
- knowledge and awareness of the meaning of art
- basic knowledge of the interpretation of a work of art
- the ability to critically reflect the aesthetics of everyday life
Professional skills:
- ability to orientate in basic areas of beauty and art in key philosophical concepts of European history
- the ability of systemic thinking about aesthetic problems and the ability to interpret original texts dealing with problems of beauty and art
- the ability to reflect on aesthetics and ethics issues
- the ability to distinguish art from kitsch
Teaching methods
Lectures
Summary
Students will be able to get acquainted with the historical development of theoretical approaches to architecture and art. Great importance will be given to clarifying the aesthetic and ethical issues of art, architecture and urbanism. Analysis of issues from the field of aesthetics, kitsch, delimitation of art work, emblem, symbol and archetype in art, interpretation and evaluation of art work. The student defines the basic concepts of moral philosophy (ethics) and describes and compares various ethical theories. Students evaluate contemporary conflicting aesthetic and ethical topics, apply ethical attitudes to the field of so-called professional ethics (ethics of science, business, medical ethics).
Compulsory literature:
TATARKIEWICZ, W. Dějiny estetiky III. (Novoveká estetika). Tatran. Bratislava, 1991.
TATARKIEWICZ, W. Dějiny estetiky I. (Staroveká estetika). Tatran. Bratislava, 1985.
TATARKIEWICZ, W. Dějiny estetiky II. (Stredoveká estetika). Tatran. Bratislava, 1988.
GILBERTOVÁ, K. E., KUHN, H. Dějiny estetiky. Praha 1965. Praha, 1965.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Final exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
There are additional requirements for students.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Aesthetics, building aesthetics, historical development of aesthetics
2. Golden ratio, golden rectangle, golden triangle, golden spiral, Fibonacci sequence
3. Marcus | Vitruvius Pollo, Renaissance Aesthetics (Palladio, Alberti)
4. Formalistic and structuralist aesthetics
5. Psychological interpretations of art, myth and art, phenomenology,
6. Basic ethical concepts
7. Tradition of empirical ethics
8. Moral principle and free will, conscience and its interpretation
9. Norms, morality, virtue, happiness and the sense of ethical behavior
10. Relativization of ethical positions, new and contemporary ethical concepts
11. Analytical ethics
12. Ethics of science, business, economic ethics, ethics of an architect
13. Critical theory of society, automata, ethics of advertising, Kosík, Blažek
14. Summary, presentation of essays
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction