Syllabus
There are in the first year five lectures and eight seminaries. The topics of the lecures are: 1. An Introduction to the philosophical thinking. The Philosophy and the Science, the Ethics and the Science. 2.An Introduction to the Ethics. Ethics and morality. Descriptive ethics and Normative Ethics. 3.Codices and Oaths. A Hippocratic Oath and Hippocratic Tradition. Principles of Modern Medical Ethics. 4.Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine ("The Oviedo Declaration", 1997). 5. Nuremberg Code and the Declarartion of Helsinki.
The topics of the seminaries are as follows: 1. Introductory Thoughts. Ethics and Morality. Freedom, Consciousness. Descriptive and Normative Ethics. 2. Ethical Theories. Hedonism and Utilitarianism. Immanuel Kandt and Deaontology. Virtue Ethics. 3. The Problem of the Personhood. Human Being and Human Person. Empirical Functionalism and Ontological Personalism. 4. The Beginning of Human LIfe. The Status of the Human Embryo. Embryology and Ethics. 5. The Status of the Animal. Animal Experimentations. An Animal between a thing and a person. "3R" approach. 6. The Embryonic Stem Cells. Arguments for and arguments against. 7. The Symbolism of Human Body. The imagination, speech, thinking. The Quality of Human Life. 8. The Body and Soul. Dreams in culture and history. What does it mean to be a human?
Annotation
The course is concerning the basics of philosophy and sociology. The different ethical theories, the basic philosophical terms and school of thoughts are touched.
The transformation of the question "what does it mean to be a human" in different times and contexts is discussed.