Course: Ethics and Aesthetics

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Course title Ethics and Aesthetics
Course code KZP/1ETIK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bednář Miloslav, prof. PhDr. CSc.
  • Marková Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1.Ethics as a philosophical discipline, place of ethics among other scientific disciplines, classification of ethical theories, basic ethical problems and their solution in ethics, relation of ethics and morality. 2.Ethical theories of ancient Greece and Rome. Miletian school, sophists, Socratic school, Aristotle. Ethics of Helenism. Stoicism and Epicureism. Parallels of East and West. 3.European traditions in Ethics. Ethical theories in Middle Ages, renaissance ethical theories, modern ethical theory, ethics of the French Enlightenment, German classical philosophy, ethics of positivism. 4.Hedonist morality. Happiness as as the pivotal concept of ethics, account of happiness, happiness as luck or lot, happiness as a positive life balance, life content. Strategy of searching for a positive and avoiding negative view of world in ecological crisis. 5.Basic ecological problems. Ethos, ethical value, moral norm. Good and evil, problem of origin and substance of evil in the world. Problem of moral evaluation, freedom and responsibility. Problem of free will, moral affection and conscience. 6.Education of human rights and ecological ethics. Human life as a value, rights of animals to life. Rights of the Earth ? Ethics of the Earth, or ethics of environment, human ethics. 7.Basic categories of aesthetics, their definition. 8.Aesthetic approach of man to reality, aesthetic and utilitarian-practical approach of man to reality, aesthetic and ethical dimension of this approach, aesthetic experience. 9.Role of aesthetic taste at forming of environment. 10.Physiological principle of human behavior in links to sustainable development, preservation of the relation man-nature, global perils of present, normality and optimum, human etiology. 11.Christian tradition and its account of the relationship of man and nature, its various interpretations and misinterpretations including its moral and ethical dimension. Man and god in the Christian religion. A wave of fashion, or inevitability of a renewal of religion. Philosophy of technology, futurology, relation among man, nature, science and technology. Technocratic conceptions. 12.Relation between man and nature as an ethical problem, its character, causes of its origin. Survey of contemporary initiatives for saving life, ethics of respect to life.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Interpretácia a nadinterpretácia (red. Stefan Collini, přel. Zdeňka Kalnická). Archa, Bratislava, 1995.
  • Od narození do smrti. Etické problémy v lékařství, Mladá fronta, Praha, 2000.
  • Světové dějiny umění. Larousse S.A., Cesty, 1996. 1996.
  • Arzenbacher, A. Úvod do filosofie. SPN, Praha, 1991. 1991.
  • Bílý, J. Základy etiky a estetiky a religionistiky, Eurolex Bohemia, Praha, 2007.
  • Emanuel Lévinas. Etika a nekonečno, Oikumené, Praha, 1994.
  • Hargvove, E.C. Foundations of Environmental Ethics, N.J. 1989. 1989.
  • Jůzl M., Prokop D. Úvod od estetiky. Panorama, Praha, 1989. 1989.
  • Kolářský, R., Suša, O. Filosofie a současná ekologická krize. Filosofia, AV ČR, 1988. 1988.
  • Perniola, M. Estetika 20. století, Praha, 2001. Praha, 2000.
  • Pijoan, J. Dějiny umění 1-10 díl Praha, 1998-2000. 1998.
  • Tretera, J. Nástin dějin evropského myšlení. Paseka, 1999. 1999.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Environment Study plan (Version): Revitalization of Lanscape (C_3) Category: Special and interdisciplinary fields 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer