Introduction to Ethics - YBAJ027

• Title: Introduction to Ethics
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, MC [HS]
• Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
• Capacity: 20 / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YBF412

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D. (09.09.2020)

The course offers an elementary insight into basic ethical concepts of western philosophy.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D. (09.09.2020)

Obligatory:

• Aristotle. books I-III, VI, X. In Aristotelés. Nicomachean Ethics . New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, s. -. ISBN 0-19-875271-7..
• Platón. Euthyphro ; Apology ; Crito ; Phaedo ; Phaedrus. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: Harvard University Press, 1995, 583 s. ISBN 0-674-99040-4.
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the genealogy of morality. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 195 s. ISBN 978-0-521-69163-5.
• Epiktétos. Encheiridion. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998, 2 s. ISBN 978-0-674-99240-5.
• Diogenes Laertios. book X (Epicurus: Letter to Menoikeus). In Diogenés Laertios. Lives of eminent philosophers . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, s. -. ISBN 978-0-521-88681-9..
• Mill, J. S.. Utilitarianism. In Mill, John Stuart. On liberty and utilitarianism . New York: Bantam Books, 1993, s. -. ISBN 0-553-21414-4..
• Hume, David. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals : a critical edition. : , 1998, 308 s. ISBN 978-0-19-926633-3.

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D. (19.02.2024)

Weekly assignments in moodle: link here.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D. (09.09.2020)

1. Plato I: What is virtue?
2. Plato II: Caring for the soul
3. Aristotle I: Eudaimonia
4. Aristotle II: Moral virtue, rational virtue
5. Aristotle III: Action and choice
6. Epikúros
7. Hellenistic schools and stoics
8. D. Hume I: Freedom and necessity
9. D. Hume II: moral sense
10. Utilitarianism
11. I. Kant: The good will
12. I. Kant: Freedom alias duty
13. F. Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morality

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Stanislav Synek, Ph.D. (19.02.2024)

1. Assignments (see moodle)
2. Colloquium
3. [OPTIONAL instead of the assignments] Essay (6-10 standard pages; 1 standard page = cca 1.800 characters)

In the colloquium, we will discuss partially the essay, partially own readings of compulsory literature.

The student is required to read and study at least 6 titles from the list of compulsory literature.