Anotace
The general introduction into ethics provides the students with basic knowledge in ethics, its method and subject. It gives a survey of the historical development of moral thought and information on the basic categories in ethics, significant tendencies and schools of moral thought.
The contents of the course:
I: what is ethics; tapes and fields of moral reflection; basic ethical categories; types of descriptive ethics.
II: main types of normative ethics (metaphysical ethics, contractualist ethics; English ethics in the 18th century;
Kant and neokanthians; empricism in ethics – utilitarianism; Gernam idealism in the 19th century; the ethics of the will; religion based ethics; ethics of responsibility; ethics of social communications and discourse ethics.
The aim is to give the students basic orientation in the history and development of moral thought that would help them to gain orientation in moral philosophy and theological ethics.
