Theological Ethics 1 - RETA5031

• Title: TEPV2-Theological Ethics 1
• Guaranteed by: Department of Theological Ethics (27-TE)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Jindřich Halama, Dr.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Eliška Vančová (29.05.2020)

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.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Eliška Vančová (29.05.2020)

ANZENBACHER, Arno: Ethik. Eine Einführung. Patmos-Verlag 2012.

COPP, David (ed.). The Oxford handbook of ethical theory. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

JONAS, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility. University of Chicago Press 1985.

KANT, Immanuel: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A German-English Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011.

LAFOLLETTE, Hugh; PERSSON, Ingmar (eds.). The Blackwell guide to ethical theory. Chichesterester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

LÉVINAS, Emanuel: Ethics and Infinity. Duquesne University Press 1995.

NORMAN, Richard. The Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics. New York 1997 (2nd ed.).

RACHELS, James (ed.). Ethical Theory. London, Oxford University 1998.

SINGER, Peter. (ed.).A companion to ethics. Oxford : Blackwell, 1999.

THOMPSON, Mel. Ethical Theory. Hodder Education 2008.

WEISCHEDEL, Wilhelm: Skeptische Ethik. Suhrkamp 1976.