PdF:OVp006N History of Ethics 1-lecture - Course Information
OVp006N History of Ethics 1-lecture
Faculty of EducationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Petr Jemelka, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Slavomír Lesňák, PhD. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Slavomír Lesňák, PhD.
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jitka Autratová
Supplier department: Department of Civics – Faculty of Education - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Civics and Basics of Social Studies for Education (programme PdF, B-OV3S) (2)
- Civics and Social Studies Basic with a view to Education (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- - get an overview of ethical theories in the past - to capture the relativity of good and evil in the past - to gain a pluralistic view of values and morals
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course students should be able to: - compare and evaluate individual theories from the history of ethical thinking - make reasoned decisions about specific moral problems - to interpret ethical theories in the historical context - apply ethical theories in life (and at school)
- Syllabus
- 1)Introduction to the ethics. The myth as moral problem. 2) Herakleitos, sophist s doubt. 3) Demokritos and Epikuros. 4)Plato as theoretist of totalitarism. 5) Aristoteles - the meaning of freedom. 6) Stoicism- problem of fatalism. 7) The beginnings of christianity. 8)Machiavelli and the philosophy of history. 10) Hobbes. 9) Protestant ethics and the beginning of capitalism. 11) J. J. Rousseau- private ownership as the cause of social evil 12) I. Kant.
- Teaching methods
- lecture and seminar
- Assessment methods
- Credit seminar. The fulfilling requirements of this course are quiz, active participation in class, an attendance;
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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