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    KFI/NFILE

    4 ECTS Credits

    Tomáš Machula

     

    The main aim of the lecture is to introduce the most important problems and traditions in philosophical ethics.

    The student will know basic concepts and theories in Ethics. He/she is able to work with various contexts and approaches to moral discussions. He/she is able to apply general laws and approaches to particular cases.

     

    Lectures

    1. The concept of Ethics

    2. The concept of Good

    3. A Goal of human life

    4. Utilitarianism

    5. Deontology and Law Ethics

    6. Natural law in Antiquity and Middle Ages

    7. Natural law in Modern Age

    8. Conscience

    9. Classical concept of virtues

    10. The role of emotions in morality

    11. Cardinal and infused virtues

    12. Theory and Praxis



    Literature

    Basic

    Rachels, J., The Elements of Moral Philosophy, New York 2012.

    (overall summary of basic ethical concepts, moral systems and theories)

    Darwall, S., Philosophical Ethics, Boulder – Oxford 1998.

    (extensive introduction to the subject; very well worked out the chapters on metaethics, Mill, Kant and Aristotle)

    Williams, B., Morality. An Introduction to Ethics, Cambridge 1993.

    (very useful basic introduction; except utilitarianism the topics are not treated very extensively and in detail)

     

    Additional

    Introductions to history of ethics and systematic treatises on ethics

    Oderberg, D., Moral Theory. A Non-Consequentialist Approach, Oxford 2000.

    Cohen, G. A., Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy, Princeton – Oxford 2014.

    Brooks, T. Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Leiden – Boston, 2011.

    Dreier, J. (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, Oxford 2006.

    Brooks, T. Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Leiden – Boston, 2011.

     

    Deeper introduction to utilitarianism

    Smart J.J.C., Williams, B., Utilitarianism. For and Against, Cambridge 1998.


    Deeper introduction to Kant’s ethics

    Uleman, J. K., An Introduction to Kant’s Moral Philosophy, Cambridge 2010.

     

    Deeper introduction to the natural law ethics

    Cherry, M. J., Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics, New York 2004.

     

    Deeper introduction to the virtue ethics

    Carr, D., Steutel, J., Virtue Ethics and Moral Education, London – New York 2005.

    O’Keefe, M., Virtues Abounding, Eugene, OR. 2019.