Introduction to Appllied Ethics - KFIL251
Title: Úvedení do studia aplikované etiky
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:8/0, C [HS]
Extent per academic year: 8 [hours]
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: combined
Guarantor: prof. doc. Dr. Ing. Tomáš Machula, Th.D., Ph.D.
Incompatibility : KFIL051
Interchangeability : KFIL051
Is incompatible with: KFIL051
Is interchangeable with: KFIL051
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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.

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)
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)
Course completion requirements -

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)
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)
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)