Course: Political Ethics - Historical Overview

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Course title Political Ethics - Historical Overview
Course code KPF/N026
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
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)
  • Bláha Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Definition of Political Ethics - Sutor, Küng, Weber - Plato and Aristotle - Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi - Machiavelli and More - Erasmus and Luther - Hobbes and Locke - Mandeville and Smith - Montesquieu and Rousseau - Burke and Paine - Sade and Tocqueville - Kant and Hegel - Marx and Bakunin - Mill and Kierkegaard

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course will get students acquainted with a historical overview of different views on the politics and ethics and will present the authors and their text extracts. Students will get familiarized with their mutual coherence of ethics and politics, and simultaneously and in changes in understanding of their coherence.
Students will get oriented in the development of coherence between ethics and politics. They will be able to argue from various positions and on the basis of various ethical assumptions.
Prerequisites
None.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Students defend their seminal work that interprets studied primary and secondary literature related to the topic
Recommended literature
  • Bakunin, M.A. Bůh a stát. Praha, 2014. ISBN 978-80-87054-39-0.
  • BURKE, E. Úvahy o revoluci ve Francii. Brno, 1997.
  • František z Assisi. Františkánské prameny. Velehrad, 2001. ISBN 80-86528-03-0.
  • Hirschman, A.O. Lidské vášně a osobní zájmy. Brno, 2000. ISBN 80-85959-63-1.
  • Hobbes, T. Leviathan. Praha, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7298-106-9.
  • Kant, I. K věčnému míru. Praha, 1999.
  • Krasnodebski, Z. Zánik myšlenky pokroku. Červený Kostelec, 2006. ISBN 80-86818-25-X.
  • Luther, M. O světské vrchnosti. Heršpice, 1993. ISBN 80-900696-2-2.
  • Maritain, J. Člověk a stát. Praha, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86138-86-2.
  • MONTESQUIEU, CH. de. O duchu zákonů díl I.. Praha, 2011.
  • More, T. Utopie. Praha, 1978.
  • Novak, M. Filosofie svobody. Praha, 1998. ISBN 80-7021-264-0.
  • Platón. Euthyfrón, Obrana Sókrata, Kritón. Praha, 1994.
  • Popper, K.R. Otevřená společnost a její nepřátelé. Praha, 1994. ISBN 80-85241-54-4.
  • Smith, A. Teorie mravních citů. Praha, 2005. ISBN 80-86389-38-3.
  • Strauss, L. Eseje o politické filosofii. Praha, 1995.
  • Tocqueville, A.de. Demokracie v Americe. Praha, 1992.
  • Voegelin, E. Nová věda o politice. Brno, 2000.
  • WEBER, M. Metodologie, sociologie a politika.. Praha, OIKOYMENH, 2009.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences for Secondary Schools (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences for Secondary Schools (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Political Philosophy (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 Arts Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences for Middle School (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -