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Course: Seminar: Ethics in Helping Professions 2

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Course title Seminar: Ethics in Helping Professions 2
Course code KFI/KESS2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Machula Tomáš, prof. Ph.D., Th.D.
Course content
1. Historical and systematical foundations of natural law - Stoics and Aquinas 2. Jacques Maritain 3. Leo Strauss 4. John Finnis 5. Historical and systematical foundations of virtue ethics - Aristotle 6. Alasdair MacIntyre 7. Philippa Foot 8. Rosalind Hursthouse 9. Connection of natural law and virtue ethics

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
  • Preparation for classes - 16 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 12 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 100 hours per semester
  • Preparation for classes - 14 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 80 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 80 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 8 hours per semester
  • Preparation for classes - 34 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The subject is the second of two courses of deeper introduction to the contemporary ethical theories. The lectures are focused not only on an overview of contemporary approaches but especially on their relationships and historical background.
The student will be educated in basic concepts and questions of the natural law ethics and the virtue ethics, their historical background and contemporary situation. He/she will have a complex point of view on the topic and will be able to think and argue independently.
Prerequisites
Současné etické systémy 1

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Combined exam

1. The student must know essential information about the topic 2. The student is able to show adequate level of independent thinking and competence for philosophical discussion on the recommended books
Recommended literature
  • Beran, Ondřej,; Cíbik, Matej,; Pacovská, Kamila; Petříček, Jan. Základní etické teorie. Červený Kostelec : Pavel Mervart, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7465-568-5.
  • Beran, Ondřej; Pacovská, Kamila (eds.). Problémy etiky II. Červený Kostelec. 2022.
  • Finnis, John. Natural law and natural rights/. 2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-959914-1.
  • Finnis, John; Sitár, Matúš. Prirodzený zákon a prirodzené práva. Krásno nad Kysucou : Kalligram, 2019. ISBN 978-80-89916-78-8.
  • Kuna, M. Úvod do etiky cnosti. Ružomberok, 2010.
  • Kuna, Marian. Etika a politika v perspektíve Alasdaira MacIntyra. Ružomberok: Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberoku, Filozofická fakulta, 2010. ISBN 978-80-8084-553-7.
  • MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue : a study in moral theory. 2. ed., reprint. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. ISBN 0-268-00611-3.
  • MacIntyre, Alasdair C. Ztráta ctnosti : k morální krizi současnosti. Vyd. 1. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2004. ISBN 80-7298-082-3.
  • Sousedík, Stanislav. Svoboda a lidská práva : jejich přirozenoprávní základ : esej. Vyd. 1. Praha : Vyšehrad, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7429-036-7.
  • Strauss, Leo; Mocek, Michal. Přirozené právo a dějiny. Vydání první. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7298-571-5.
  • Strauss, Leo. Natural right and history. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970. ISBN 0-226-77694-8.


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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 12.05.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026