Ethics I

Annotation

The aim of the course is to provide students with a fundamental knowledge of issues concerning ethics, and to explicate philosophical prerequisites of ethics and morality, the basic levels of moral reality, and the development of main ethical and philosophic-ethical categories.

The course concerns with the development and changes of viewpoints of the good (in moral and ontological sense), the proportion of the good and the supreme good, and complexity and changes in receptiveness of the evil. It focuses on the question of position of freedom and free will in both ethical systems and human morality, and the interpretation of the function of conscience and its understanding. It explains the problems of moral normativity, and the role of public opinion and moral values in human behaviour. Finally, the course introduces the typologies of social ethics and various systems of distinguishing between different types of ethics.