Introduction to Appllied Ethics - KFIL051
Title: Úvedení do studia aplikované etiky
Guaranteed by: Department of Systematic Theology and Philosophy (26-KST)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, 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: critical thinking
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.
Incompatibility : KFIL251
Interchangeability : KFIL251
Is incompatible with: KFIL251
Is interchangeable with: KFIL251
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Annotation -
The course is focused on the relationship between theoretical and practical philosophy. The emphasize is laid on the methodological differences between philosophy, science and theology.

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (20.10.2024)
Aim of the course -

Clarification of the basic characteristics and themes of the applied ethics.

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (20.10.2024)
Literature -

A Companion to Applied Ethics. Ed. by R. G. Frey and C. H. Wellman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

Peter Singer (ed.), Applied Ethics, Oxford 1986.

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (20.10.2024)
Teaching methods -

Lecture and discussion.

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (20.10.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

Essay (cca 10 pages) - review of a book (paper, movie...) that is significant for applied ethics. 

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (20.10.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Philosophy, its scopes and limits.
2. Ethics and Applied Ethics. Normative and Descriptive Ethics. Metaethics.
3. Vita contemplativa and vita activa
4. The Role of Logic and Metaphysics in Ethics
5. Knowledge and Action. Speculative and Practical Intellect
6. Reduction of Philosophy to Science (Positivis and its Followers)
7. Reduction of Ethics to Science (Evolutionary Ethics)
8. Reduction of Philosophy to Theology (Augustinian School and its Followers)
9. Reduction of Ethics to Theology (Social Ethics as a Church Social Teaching)

Last update: Machula Tomáš, prof. doc. Dr. Ing., Th.D., Ph.D. (20.10.2024)