Contemporary Ethical Theories II - KFIL038
Title: Současné etické teorie II
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 12 [weeks]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. doc. Dr. Ing. Tomáš Machula, Th.D., Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. doc. Dr. Ing. Tomáš Machula, Th.D., Ph.D.
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Annotation -
The course is the second part of two semester block on contemporary ethical theories. The first part is focused on Utilitarian and Kantian theories and this second part is focused on the virtue ethics and natural law ethics. The core of the course is not only history but especially contemporary argumentations.
Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (13.02.2025)
Aim of the course -

Information on recent (20th a 21st century) authors of the virtue ethics (Anscombe, MacIntyre, Foot etc.) and natural law ethics (Maritain, Strauss, Finnis, George).

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (13.02.2025)
Literature -

A. MacIntyre, After Virtue
J. Finnis, Natural Law and natural Rights
L. Strauss, Natural Right and History

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (13.02.2025)
Teaching methods -

lecture + discussion

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (13.02.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Elisabeth Anscombe and Alasdair MacIntyre - critique of the 20th century ethics
2. After Virtue and MacIntyre's diagnosis of the problem
3. MacIntyre's critique of Enlightenment ethics
4. Historical and Systematical Foundations of Virtue Ethics - Aristotle and Aquinas
5. Possibility of a Return to Virtue Ethics according to MacIntyre and Foot
6. Contemporary Virtue Ethics
7. Historical and Systematical Foundations of Natural Law - Stoics and Aquinas
8. Modern Natural Law Concepts
9. Jacques Maritain - Natural Law and Natural Rights
10. John Finnis and New Natural Law Theory
11. Critique of the New Natural Law Theory
12. Connection of Natural Law and Virtue Ethics

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (13.02.2025)