| Course title | Metaethics. General Ethics in Analytical Philosophy |
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| Course code | KPF/B212 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Lecturer(s) |
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| Course content |
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1. The notion and subject of metaethics. 2. Moore's criticism of naturalism and the subsequent discussion; intuicionism. 3. Emotivism and prescriptivism: Ayer, Stevenson, Hare. 4. Is-ought question in the modern discussion. 5. Error theory: Russell, Mackie. 6. Realism reductionist vs. non-reductionist. 7. Arguments against/for the cognitivism. 8. Relativism: Mackie, Harman. 9. Against relativism: Taylor, Sandel, McIntyre. 10. J. Searle: speech acts, social reality. 11. Ch. Taylor: strong evaluations, horizon of significance. 12. Autonomy, subjectivity. 13. Free will and ethics. 14. Paradoxes of the contemporary theist ethics.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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Student acquaints with character of metaethical problems. These questions don't aim to determine ethical principles or norms of human actions but concern rather a most general level: the status of ethical principles and norms. The meta-ethicist asks e.g. whether they are valid objectively (independently of us) or subjectively (as mere projections of our preferences). The course includes an introduction to the main philosophical streams which offer their answers.
Student acquires the ability to discriminate the distinctively metaethical approach to ethics. He/she acquaints with the basic outlines of the modern history of metaethics, with main topics of metaethics and with contemporary methodology of this discipline. |
| Prerequisites |
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None.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
During semester student constantly follows the lectures and is actively interested in the discussed topics. The final written test consists in two randomly selected questions. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A8) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Political Science (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Social sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Human Studies focused Aesthetics (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Social Sciences (A14) | Category: Philosophy, theology | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |