711-0702/01 – Ethics (Etika)
Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 2 |
Subject guarantor | prof. Dr. Mgr. Tomáš Hauer | Subject version guarantor | doc. PhDr. Martin Jemelka, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 1999/2000 | Year of cancellation | 2010/2011 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
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.
Teaching methods
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Project work
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. Engineering Ethics, as part of the sphere of applied 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. Engineering Ethics develops criteria which systematize normative beliefs and offers orientation in decision-making situations in which engineers and technicians are insufficient everyday moral intuitions. Engineering Ethics therefore be primarily interested in the justification of moral conviction in cases deciding the daily engineering practice, in which our intuitive moral convictions are uncertain, or contradictory and ambiguous.
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.
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 ethics
9. Morality of science
10. Business ethics
11. Medically ethics
12. Religiously ethics
13. Key works and autors of moral philosophy
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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