Syllabus
1. Introduction. Selected concepts of fundamental ethics (ethos - conscience).2. Care of the soul - antiquity, Patočka, present.3. Authenticity and inauthenticity and relation to the other. "I and Thou" according to Buber.4. Ethics and law. Helping professions and their specifics.5. The role of empathy and dialogue in the helping professions.6. Codes of ethics in the helping professions, the "Ten Commandments" in APA.7. Human relations as part of the profession. Ethics in relation to health (health, illness, pain).8. Ethical dilemmas in prenatal diagnosis9. Virtues and the helping professions.10.Issues of cooperation. Solidarity, justice.11.Ethical therapy.12.Euthanasia13.Discussion of selected topics related to the field of APTV.14.Case study ad credit.
Annotation
Aim of this field of study is to introduce to students basic ways of ethical thinking and problems of the caring professions. Students will be acquainted with some selected notions of fundamental ethics (good, evil, conscience etc), with relation between ethics and the law and with the application of deontology into the area of the APA.