Course: Ethics of Virtues

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Course title Ethics of Virtues
Course code KFI/EC
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Machula Tomáš, prof. Ph.D., Th.D.
Course content
1. habit, virtue and vice 2. Aristotelian ethics 3. medieval development of virtue ethics 4. intellectual ethics 5. cardinal virtues 6. infised virtues 7. E. Anscombe, P. Foot a A. MacIntyre 8. teleology in the virtue ethics 9. relationship between virtue ethics and natural law 10. virtue ethics and applied ethics

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
Deeper introduction into the virtue ethics.
Students has deep knowledge of the virtue ethics and various concepts and authors in this field of ethics.
Prerequisites
basic knowledge of ethics

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

Exam questions are in the Moodle
Recommended literature
  • MacIntyre, Alasdair C. Ztráta ctnosti : k morální krizi současnosti. Vyd. 1. Praha : OIKOYMENH, 2004. ISBN 80-7298-082-3.
  • Marián Kuna. Etika cností.


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