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Actual Issues in Applied Ethics - KFIL061
Title: Aktuální problémy aplikované etiky
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:oral
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 12 [weeks]
Capacity: unknown / 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: ThLic. David Peroutka, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): ThLic. David Peroutka, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The course focuses on a significant group of interrelated topics in applied ethics. These are current moral issues concerning the beginning and end of human life, the transmission of human life, marriage, sexuality and gender. The aim is both to think through these issues on the basis of natural law theory and to compare the Christian perspective with different or opposing perspectives.
Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (30.09.2024)
Course completion requirements

Min. 75% attendance, passing the exam.

Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
Literature -

A Companion to Applied Ethics. Ed. by R. G. Frey and C. H. Wellman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
Petr Ondok: Bioetika, biotechnologie a biomedicína. Praha: Triton, 2005.
Alfonso Gómez-Lobo: Bioethics and the Human Goods. An Introduction to Natural Law Bioethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015.
Jason T. Eberl: Thomistic Principles and Bioethics. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Bioethics. An Anthology. Ed by H. Kuhse, U. Schuklenk, and P. Singer. Malden, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Tomas Bogardus: „Evaluating Arguments for the Sex-Gender Distinction“. Philosophia, 48 (3), 2020, p. 873-892.
Thich Nhat Hanh: Fidelity: how to create a loving relationship that lasts . Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2011.
David Ross Fryer: Thinking Queerly. Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity. London, New York: Routledge, 2016.
Edward Stein: The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (30.09.2024)
Syllabus -

Thematic headings: 1) The strengths and weaknesses of the arguments in favor of the distinction between sex and gender (Tomas Bogardus). 2) The question of the rights of sexual minorities (Edward Stein, David Ross Fryer). 3) The ethos of married life (Thich Nhat Hanh). 4) The concept of life; life as value. 5) The beginning of human life. 6) Discussion of euthanasia and genetic engineering.

Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (30.09.2024)
 
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