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Anthropological Starting Points of Christian Ethics - KSTE321
Title: Antropologická východiska křesťanské etiky
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 7
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:9/0, --- [HS]
summer s.:9/0, Ex [HS]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: combined
Teaching methods: combined
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)
The course introduces the basic concepts of philosophical and Christian anthropology. It is conceived as a preparatory study for the following studies of ethics. The subject-matter of the course are three related thematic areas, namely the issue of the person, the cognitive and appetitive powers of a human person and finally the soul and body as constitutive principles of a human person. The aim of the course is to explain the theoretical foundations of philosophical anthropology on which students can build in other ethics courses (e.g. human dignity as a source of human rights and duties, freedom of decision as a prerequisite for meaningful moral life, duties and commutative justice, etc.). Emphasis is placed on clarifying the connection of basic anthropological concepts and principles with ethical thinking.

The exam will be oral and its theme will be what was given in lectures, plus an interview on compulsory literature.
Aim of the course -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
The aim of the course is to explain the theoretical foundations of philosophical anthropology on which students can build in other ethics courses (e.g. human dignity as a source of human rights and duties, freedom of decision as a prerequisite for meaningful moral life, duties and commutative justice, etc.). Emphasis is placed on clarifying the connection of basic anthropological concepts and principles with ethical thinking.
Literature -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

R. Guardini, World and Person, Prague 2009

J. Searle, Mind, Brain and Science, Prague 1994 (chap. I.-II. and VI.)

Teaching methods -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
The teaching is designed as a combination of lecture and (seminar) joint reading (plus interpretation of the text).
Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. ThLic. Karel Sládek, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

The exam will be oral and its theme will be what was given in lectures, plus an interview on compulsory literature.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
1. Definition of philosophical anthropology. 2. Preliminary characterization of the concept of a person. 3. The ancient concept of a person. 4. The medieval concept of a person. 5. The modern concept of a person. 6. Current concepts of the person. 7. Cognitive and desiring abilities of the human person. 8. The human person as composed of soul and body.
Entry requirements -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (17.10.2022)

No preliminary knowledge is required.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Bc. David Svoboda, Ph.D. (17.10.2022)

The exam will be oral and its theme will be what was given in lectures, plus an interview on compulsory literature.

 
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