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Ethics and Economics - JEM020
Anglický název: Ethics and Economics
Český název: Ethics and Economics
Zajišťuje: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost: od 2015 do 2015
Semestr: zimní
E-Kredity: 6
Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/2, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: 97 / 97 (neurčen)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Další informace: http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3695
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
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Garant: doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc.
Vyučující: doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc.
Třída: Courses for incoming students
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Anotace -
There are no required prerequisites for this course.

This course is interdisciplinary: different concepts from moral and political philosophy, methodology, social sciences, economics and finance are used for discussing many relevant topics. Used concepts are explained in lectures, relevant topics specified in the syllabus are discussed in seminars.

This course is also part of the inter-university programme prg.ai Minor. It pools the best of AI education in Prague to provide students with a deeper and broader insight into the field of artificial intelligence.
More information is available at https://prg.ai/minor/.
Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (09.11.2023)
Literatura

Lecture notes for each week  will be accessible each week after the Friday online seminar.

Required readings for each week are specified in the syllabus, homeworks are based on required readings.

 

Recommended videos:

Harvard Justice course:   justiceharvard.org

Yale open course "The Moral Foundations of Politics":   https://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-118/lecture-1

 

Recommended Readings:

Buchanan, James: The Limits of Liberty (Between Anarchy and Leviathan)

Mappes, T.A., Zembaty J.S., DeGrazia, D.: Social Ethics - Morality and Social Policy. McGraw Hill 2012

Rachels, J., Rachels, S.: The Elements of Moral Philosophy. McGraw Hill 2015

Rachels, J., Rachels, S.: The Right Thing to Do. McGraw Hill 2015

Rosenberg, A: Philosophy of Social Science

Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (27.08.2024)
Sylabus -

Week 1: Ethics as Practical Philosophy

      • Human Person and Social Structures
      • Ethics and Economics
      • Miscelaneus about Ethics
      • Seminar:
        • Moral Reasoning
        • Required Reading – Promotion

Required Reading:

Plato: The Republic. 2nd Book. (Can be found on web)

 

Week 2: Justice and Coordination

      • Where the Notion of Justice Comes from
      • Virtues
      • Coordination
      • Seminar:
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Legality of Drugs”
        • Required Reading - Promotion

Required Reading:

Alisdair MacIntyre: After Virtue.  Chapter 14: "The Nature of the Virtues"

(https://epistemh.pbworks.com/f/4.+Macintyre.pdf )

Optional Readings:

http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/viceCrime/m6/nadelmann%20-%20the%20case%20for%20legalization.htm

https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-wilson/against-the-legalization-of-drugs

 

Week 3: Utilitarianism and Justice

      • Empiricist Enlightenment
      • Utilitarianism
      • Utilitarianism  in Current Economics
      • Seminar:
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Abortion”
        • Required Reading - Promotion
        • Discussion of the 1st homework

Required Reading:

Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Moral and Legislation. Chapters 1-4.

(https://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html)

Optional Readings:

http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm

http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/45.marquis.pdf

 

Week 4: Economics as a Social Science

      • Individuals and Social Structure
      • Definition of Economics and Coherent Schools of Contemporary Economics
      • Selected Topics from the Philosophy of Economics
      • Seminar:
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Helping to the Poor” and “Migration”
        • Required Reading - Promotion

 

Required Reading:

Ludwig von Mises: Human Action. Introduction  and Chapter I "Acting Man" 

 (https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf )

Optional Readings:

https://www.jefftk.com/rachels-2013-immorality-having-children.pdf

http://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/texts/425/Sen,%20PropertyHunger.pdf

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles_pdf/living_on_a_lifeboat.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-solution-to-world-poverty.html

 

Week 5:  Neoclassical Synthesis, Postkeynesian Economics and Justice

      • Theory of Choice
      • Labour Market and Justice
      • Inflation and Justice
      • Seminar:
        • Exercising of moral reasoning on “The Ethics of War and Peace”
        • Required Reading - Promotion
        • Discussion of the 2nd  homework

Required Reading:

David Hume: The Treatise of Human Nature. Book 3 “Morals”, Part 2 “Justice and injustice”, from 1 to 6

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/hume1740book3.pdf

Optional Readings:

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/14.%20The%20Ethics%20of%20War%20and%20Peace.pdf

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1428085978JohnRawls.pdf

 

Week 6:  Immanuel Kant, Psyche and Conscience

      • Immanuel Kant
      • Psyche
      • Conscience
      • Seminar:
        • Required Reading – Promotion
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Terrorism and Torture”

Required Reading:

Immanuel Kant: Toward Perpetual Peace, Introduction, Section 1, Section 2.

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1795_1.pdf

Optional Readings:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2002/11/27/0000184966

http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1163&context=facpub

 

Week 7: Selfrealization

      • Freedom
      • The Sense of Life and Happiness
      • The Easterline Paradox
      • Seminar:
        • Required Reading - Promotion
        • Discussion of the 3rd  homework
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on the “Same Sex Marriage and Surrogate Motherhood “

Required Reading:

Friedrich August von Hayek: Law, Legislation and Liberty - Volume 1, Chapter 4 "The Changing Concept of Law"

(https://libsa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/hayek-law-legislation-and-liberty.pdf )

Optional Readings:

https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5933&context=lalrev

https://newrepublic.com/article/103297/for-better-or-worse-gay-straight-marriage

 

Week 8: Social Stability, Order and Liberty

      • Iterative Relation between Personal Rules and Social Norms
      • Social Stability - Giving Reasons to Ethical Norms
      • Order x Liberty
      • Seminar:
        • Required Reading – Promotion
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on  “Freedom of Speech”

Required Reading:

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty. Chapters 1 and 2. (https://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlLbty.html)

Optional Readings:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/is-speech-violence/

 

Week 9: Constitutional Economics

      • Constitutional Economics and the Protective Function of the State 
      • Productive and Distributive Functions of the State
      • Contractual Changes in Status Quo
      • Seminar:
        • Required Reading - Promotion
        • Discussion of the 4th  homework
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Animals Ethics”

Required Reading:

This time, it is about listening to James Buchanan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178aognlYHA

Optional Readings:

https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/singer.pdf

https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/cohen.pdf

 

Week 10: Justice and Democracy

      • Justice as Fairness
      • Libertarianism
      • Democracy and Majority Voting
      • Seminar:
        • Required Reading – Promotion
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Environment”

Required Reading:

Jurgen Habermas: Between Facts and Norms - Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: Chapter 3.2 "Moral Norms and Legal Norms: On the Complementary Relation between Natural Law and Positive Law" (https://teddykw2.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/jc3bcrgen-habermas-between-facts-and-norms.pdf)

 

Week 11: Democratic Justice

      • Democratic Justice Theory
      • Democratic Justice Applications
      • Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
      • Seminar:
        • Discussion of the 5th homework
        • Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “ICT and AI development”

 

Week 12: Ethics, People and Society

      • Marketing, Sophists and Socrates
      • Postmodern World, Stoicism and Epicureanism
      • Godness, Goodness and Christianity
      • Seminar
        • Ethics Codes
        • CFA Ethics Code
        • Charles university Code of Ethics

Optional Reading:

CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conducts (just 2 pages) (please find on https://www.cfainstitute.org/pages/index.aspx  under EthicsAndStandards) 

Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (25.10.2024)
 
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