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Lecturer(s)
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Moural Josef, doc. RNDr. CSc.
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Course content
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1. Introduction. The current situation in ethics and metaethics (text: R. Rorty) 2. Acting and types of its evaluation. Traditionalist and naturalist conception of morals. 3. Moral judgement and moral affects. Duty and Good. 4. Kantian moral concept and its reworking by Tugendhat. 5-6. Kant?s Groundwork I?II. 7. Discourse ethics. Ethics of sympathy, zooethics, unborn life. 8. Anti-Enlightenment ethics. 9-10. Ethics of virtue and its inclusion in Tugendhat?s concept. 11. Utilitarianism. 12. Human Rights and Justice. 13. Summary, conclusions, applications.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course deals with the current situation in ethics and metaethics. It is based on Ernst Tugendhat?s position, as presented in his Lectures on Ethics (2004). We confront this position e.g. with Richard Rorty?s views (2007). A part of Tugendhat?s presentation is a discussion of alternative positions, including utilitarianism, the Kantian, anti-Enlightenment, virtue and discourse ethics, and the ethics of sympathy.
Students should be able to teach on the course?s topic (in extension of 360 minutes) and to further study primary and secondary literature in the field. Students possess reliable orientation in the main ethical conceptions and objections against them, and they know well Tugendhat?s conception.
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Students must read and understand the required texts. The final exam is oral.
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Recommended literature
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Mackie, J. L.. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Harmondsworth, 1977.
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Tugendhat, E.. Přednášky o etice. Praha, 2004.
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