Ethics and Education - OEBXO2105Z

• Title: Ethics and Education
• Guaranteed by: Katedra občanské výchovy a filosofie (41-KOVF)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 4
• Hours per week, examination: 1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (12); summer:unknown / unknown (12)
• Min. number of students: 2
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. David Rybák, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. David Rybák, Ph.D.

Annotation

Is it possible to show for contemporary wo/man that ethics is not only a doctrine of the good life, but that it belongs essentially to the being of wo/man? How does the ability to distinguish between good and evil belong to wo/man? And how do education and upbringing belong to ethics? Are they separate disciplines, or are they different aspects of the same movement? How does ethics change throughout history, and how does the meaning of education and upbringing change along with it? These are the questions that will guide our introduction to the basic problems and concepts of the question of ethics.

Last update: Rybák David, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (19.04.2022)

Aim of the course

The student will understand the basic concepts and problems that belong to the question of ethics. The student will also be able to distinguish between doctrine and living inquiry, which is more original than any doctrine.

Last update: Rybák David, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (19.04.2022)

Course completion requirements

Understanding the issues and basic concepts discussed in the joint meetings. Study and understanding of one title from the required literature.

Last update: Rybák David, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (19.04.2022)

Literature

Plato: Gorgias - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1672/1672-h/1672-h.htm

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book I - http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.1.i.html

Rybák, David. 2022. "Platonic Curriculum and the Allegory of the Cave". Theology and Philosophy of Education 1 (2):3–9. https://www.tape.academy/index.php/tape/article/view/17.

 

Last update: Rybák David, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.01.2024)

Requirements to the exam

Understanding the issues and basic concepts discussed in the joint meetings. Study and understanding of one title from the required literature.

Last update: Rybák David, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (19.04.2022)

Syllabus

1. What is the question of ethics?

2. Plato's discovery of education and the just soul: school

3. Aristotle's ethics: the sought knowledge of the good life

4. Christian-Roman morality: will and love

5. Cartesian Subjectivity - Science and Will

6. Foundations of modern theory of law and politics - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau 

7. Hume and Kant - feelings and reason

8. Marx, Nietzsche, Kafka: machinery and the human being

9. The Problem of the Other and Otherness

10. University and machinery

11. Machinery and university

Last update: Rybák David, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (20.04.2022)