Philosophical and Christian Ethics - KFIL253
Title: Filosofická a křesťanská etika
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 7
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:oral
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:10/0, --- [HS]
summer s.:10/0, Ex [HS]
Extent per academic year: 20 [hours]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer: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. PhLic. Vojtěch Novotný, Th.D.
ThLic. David Peroutka, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : KFIL053
Interchangeability : KFIL053
Is incompatible with: KFIL053
Is interchangeable with: KFIL053
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Annotation -
The purpose of the course is to present the basic model of classical Christian ethics and its themes in a systematic and in-depth manner. The course will not concern a specifically theological ethics based on the sources of revelation, but the possibilities of philosophical ethics to meet the Christian demand for ethical objectivity (a non-relativistic conception of ethics). Christian ethics conceived in this way is compared in particular with two prominent modern currents: the British empiricist tradition and Kantian rationalism.
Last update: Peroutka David, ThLic., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
Literature -

Tomáš Akvinský: O zákonech v Teologické sumě. Transl. K. Šprunk, Praha: Krystal OP, 2003.

John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights, Oxford University Press, New York 2011.

Anthony J. Lisska: Aquinas’s Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

 „Přirozenost“ ve filosofii minulosti a současnosti. Ed. L. Chvátal, V. Hušek. Olomouc: CDK, 1007.

Virtue Ethics. Ed by R. Crisp, M. Slote. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Arno Anzenbacher: Úvod do etiky. Praha: Zvon, 1994.

John Stuart Mill: Utilitarismus. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2011.

Immanuel Kant: Základy metafyziky mravů. Praha: Oikúmené, 2014.

Ernst Tugendhat: Přednášky o etice. Praha: Oikúmené, 2004.

Alasdair MacIntyre: Ztráta ctnosti. Praha: Oikúmené, 2004.

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

1) Philosophical and theological ethics; morality and moral life; behavior and action. 2) Historical conceptions of natural law: Aristotle, ancient and medieval legal theories, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, contemporary (e.g. John Finnis). 3) Hierarchy of law according to Thomas Aquinas. 4) Theoretical reason and practical reason: their independent principles; natural law as the basis of practical rationality. 5) Practical reason and natural inclinations; nature and its intentionality (natural inclinations from a metaphysical point of view). 6) Thomas's ethics of values. 7) Beatitude as the last end; the singularity of the last end and the multiplicity of "values about oneself" 8) Virtues between Plato, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas; contemporary virtue ethics. 9) Ethical theories in the empiricist tradition: David Hume; the utilitarianism of J.-S. 10) Teleology vs. deontology; Kant's rationalism, Ch. Korsgaard, E. Tugendhat 11) Communitarianism. MacIntyre.

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