PSB_158 Dilemmas in Moral Psychology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2004
Extent and Intensity
2/0/2. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jana Dvořáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Šárka Portešová, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jana Dvořáková, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Jana Dvořáková, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
This course is aimed only for Socrates Erasmus Foreign Students and is teached in English language. Course is focused on introduction in moral psychology, past and current approaches to the study of moral development, moral reasoning and dilemma solving.
Syllabus
1. Terminology: morality versus moral psychology, moral action, moral dilemma, moral development, moral judgement, moral reasoning. 2. Theoretical approaches: psychoanalytical approach, social learning theory. Moral relativism. 3. Clasical cognitive-developmental approaches - Piaget, Kohlberg. 4. Gender differences in moral dilemma solution, ethics of care versus ethics of justice - Gilligan 5. Moral self - Blasis koncept - effect for moral psychology 6. Real life moral judgement and clasification of dilemmatic situation - Wark and Krebs.
Literature
  • Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different voice. Harvard: Harvard University Press.ologie, 35, 233-242.
  • Kohlberg, L. (1973). The Claim to Moral Adequacy of a Highest Stage of Moral Judgement. The Journal of Philosophy 70, 630-64.
  • Walker, L. J., Hennig, K.H. (1997). Moral Development in the Broader Context of Personality. In S. Hala (ed.), The Development of Social Cognition. East Sussex: Psychology Press.
  • Wark, G.R., & Krebs, D.L. (1996). Gender and Dilemma Differences in Real-Life Moral Judgment. Developmental Psychology 32, 220-230.
  • Wark, G.R., & Krebs, D.L. (2000).The Construction of Moral Dilemmas in Everyday Life. Journal of Moral Education 29, 5-21.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught in blocks.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Pouze pro zahraniční studenty - Socrates, Erasmus
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