Course: Current applied ethics

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Course title Current applied ethics
Course code KFHS/P514
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Řebíková Barbora, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to philosophical and ethical thinking 2. The relationship between ethics and law - current unethical laws 3. The problem of the person (Moral and legal status) 4. Public health - diseases of civilization and human responsibility 5. Medicinalization 6. Surrogate motherhood 7. Euthanasia and Interruption 8. Ethics of care and belief 9. Environmental ethics and climate change 10. Bioethics and "animal rights" 11. Technical improvement of humans 12. Ethics of artificial intelligence 13. Final discussion

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course is focused on gaining an orientation in the topics of contemporary ethics and on getting acquainted with the possibilities of its applicability to specific current societal topics (environmental, social, cultural, medical, etc.). The course acquaints students not only with basic ethical questions and the possibilities of answering them with individual basic ethical theories, but especially with the ethical aspects of some current phenomena and the need to emphasize these aspects. The course will briefly introduce basic ethical theories and solutions to some fundamental ethical issues, but at the same time the course will reveal the ambiguity of such solutions and the ambiguity of the acceptance of any ethical system and any unambiguous answers.
The student will gain an overview of basic ethical theories. They will acquire the conceptual equipment needed to understand ethical issues. Can argue independently. They will acquire the ability to understand texts and to argue and think independently within ethics.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Test
Recommended literature
  • Bhabha, K. H. The Location of Culture. Routletge, London - New York, 1994.
  • Felshin, N. But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism. Bay Press, 1995.
  • Kolbertová, E. Šesté vymírání. Barrister&Principal, 2018.
  • Špinka, Š., a kol. Přístupy k etice I-III. Praha, 2014.
  • Tugendhat, E. Přednášky o etice. Praha, 2004.
  • Vácha, M. O. a kol. Základy moderní lékařské etiky. Praha, 2012.


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