711-0199/06 – Ethical Questions of Modern Science (EOMV)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. PhDr. Jaromír Feber, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FS, FBI, USP, HGF, FMT, FAST, FEI, EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
A student defines basic conceptions of ethics and describes and compares different ethical theories. He defines the concept science and describe a development of scientistic thinking since myth till contemporary scientific paradigm. A student clears up the relation between ethics and a science and explains ethical norms of scientific work. He evaluates the ethical descents of science on contemporary society and applies the ethical attitudes towards physics, biology and modern technologies.
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Summary
The subject Ethical Questions of Modern Science considers an introduction to the problematic of humanitarian and ethical principles in contemporary science. It acquaints with basic ethical conceptions, theories and critical standpoints. It offers summary of present ethical positions and put an attantion to controversial ethical topics of present world and science. This subject accents specifications of ethical norms for science working as a prodigy of society and definitions of ethical norms in relation to a science and a society. Students recieve a knowledge which also includes basics of ethics of physics, bioethics and ethics of the latest technologies.
Compulsory literature:
MacIntyre, Alasdair: A Short History of Ethics (2nd edition). Routledge, 2002.
Thompson, Mel: Ethical Theory. London: Hodder Murray, 2005.
Recommended literature:
Thompson, Mel: An Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics (Access to Religion and Philosophy). London: Hodder Murray, 2003.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Verification conversational.
E-learning
Other requirements
Reading of recommended texts and books.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Basic notions of ethics and the problem of ethic understanding
2. Tradition of ethic empiricism
3. Moral canon and independent will
4. Conscience and its interpretation
5. Ethics standards, morality, virtue, utility and sense of ethic behaviour
6. Relativity of ethically position
7. New and contemporary ethic conceptions
8. Analytic ethic
9. Definition of ethics of science
10. Ethos of science
11. Ethic standard of science
12. Ethics and scince in contemporary society
13. The Freedom of scientific research
14. Ethic problems of contemporary physics, biology and IT
15. Great scientists and morality
Conditions for subject completion
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