This course introduces basic ways of ethical thinking, especially the application of deontology, virtue ethics and
utilitarianism into the area of the helping professions. The course focusses on the themes of care, cooperation,
solidarity, and the relationship of services and commerce. It introduces professional ethics, ethics and its
relationship to health, and ethical therapy
Last update: Mgr. Dominika Krupková (07.02.2020)
This course introduces basic ways of ethical thinking, especially the application of deontology, virtue ethics and
utilitarianism into the area of the helping professions. The course focusses on the themes of care, cooperation,
solidarity, and the relationship of services and commerce. It introduces professional ethics, ethics and its
relationship to health, and ethical therapy
Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Dominika Krupková (07.02.2020)
ARISTOTLE. Nicomachean Ethics.
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Being and time (J. Stambaugh, Trans.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.
HELD, Virginia. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. Oxford University Press, 2006.
PLATO. Meno.
HUBER, Wolfgang. Ethics: The Fundamental Questions of Our Lives. Georgetown University Press, 2015.
SANDEL, Michael J. The case against perfection: ethics in the age of genetic engineering. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-01927-0.
Last update: Mgr. Dominika Krupková (14.01.2020)
ARISTOTLE. Nicomachean Ethics.
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Being and time (J. Stambaugh, Trans.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.
HELD, Virginia. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. Oxford University Press, 2006.
PLATO. Meno.
HUBER, Wolfgang. Ethics: The Fundamental Questions of Our Lives. Georgetown University Press, 2015.
SANDEL, Michael J. The case against perfection: ethics in the age of genetic engineering. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-01927-0.
Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. Dominika Krupková (07.02.2020)
Test with open questions
Last update: Mgr. Dominika Krupková (14.01.2020)
Test with open questions
Syllabus -
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1. Introduction. Basic ways of ethical thinking.
2. Care of the soul - Socrates, Patočka.
3. Authenticity and inauthenticity and relationship to another person. Care of the other.
4. Ethics of care. The value of care, trust, solidarity.
5. Professional ethics.
6. Codes of ethics in the helping professions; principles of preparation of codes of ethics.
7. Ethics in relation to health. Disability vs. the idea of the ‘perfect human being’?
8. Commercialization and services.
9. Virtues and helping professions.
10. The topic of cooperation. Solidarity.
11. Ethical therapy.
12-13. Discussion of selected topics related to the area of APA.
14. Summary.
Last update: Mgr. Dominika Krupková (14.01.2020)
1. Introduction. Basic ways of ethical thinking.
2. Care of the soul - Socrates, Patočka.
3. Authenticity and inauthenticity and relationship to another person. Care of the other.
4. Ethics of care. The value of care, trust, solidarity.
5. Professional ethics.
6. Codes of ethics in the helping professions; principles of preparation of codes of ethics.
7. Ethics in relation to health. Disability vs. the idea of the ‘perfect human being’?
8. Commercialization and services.
9. Virtues and helping professions.
10. The topic of cooperation. Solidarity.
11. Ethical therapy.
12-13. Discussion of selected topics related to the area of APA.
