711-0112/02 – Ethics (Etika)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer | Subject version guarantor | Fiktivní Uživatel |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2000/2001 | Year of cancellation | 2001/2002 |
| Intended for the faculties | | Intended for study types | |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Course objectives expressed by achieved skills and competence:
Student defines primary terms of moral philosophy (ethics) and describes and compares various ethics theories. Students completing the course will be able to:
- Effectively use basic methodological approaches in ethics;
- To understand the basic ethical concepts;
- Ethically justify ours decisions in cases in which engineers and technicians are insufficient everyday moral intuitions.
- Assess the legitimacy of ethical arguments in solving conflict situations;
- Identify your own strengths and weaknesses in the present solutions ethical dilemma.
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Summary
The subject of research in ethics are moral convictions and their justifications. Ethics is a theoretical reflection of morality and theories of moral behavior. As a philosophical discipline reflects not only the conduct that is related to the differentiation of right and wrong, good and evil, but also examines individual and social moral convictions, in connection with that discernment arise. Ethics criticaly reflects the grounds of moral conduct, assessment and examines the background of moral values and moral convictions, the legitimacy of their reasoning, and evidence-based arguments. Develops criteria which systematize normative beliefs and offers orientation in decision-making situations in which engineers and technicians are insufficient everyday moral intuitions.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Thompson, Mel: An Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics (Access to Religion and Philosophy). London: Hodder Murray, 2003.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
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Subject has no prerequisities.
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