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Lecture notes for this course are on:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=6201978 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 approaches are explained in lectures, topics are discussed in seminars. There are no required prerequisites for this course. Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (19.03.2026)
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By the end of this course students will be able to discuss different topics with understanding of relevant concepts from moral and political philosophy, methodology, social sciences, economics and finance. Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (03.09.2021)
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Lecture notes for this course are on: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6201978 Recommended readings for each week are specified in the syllabus. 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
Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (19.03.2026)
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Both seminars and lectures are in the classroom 109, Opletalova building. "Virtual mobility" and "4EU+" students can attend both lectures and seminars online, upon request, in MS Teams. Online seminars are in different time than insite seminars,
Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (27.08.2024)
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Grading:
https://dl3.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=547 1st midterm test: October 31st, 2025 (the whole day) 2nd midterm test: November 28th, 2025 (the whole day) 3rd midterm test: January 2nd, 2026 (the whole day) Final tests will be on January 8th at 2:00 p.m., on January 15th at 2:00 p.m., on January 29th at 2:00 p,m, and on February 12th at 2:00 p.m. There are no retakes for midterm tests, you just lose the points. According to our study rules, if you fail in the final test, you have two retakes. After summarizing all points, our standard grading scale will be applied: 0-50 (F), 51-60 (E), 61-70 (D), 71-80 (C), 81-90 (B), 91-100 (A) Poslední úprava: Cahlík Tomáš, doc. Ing., CSc. (01.02.2026)
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Week 1: Ethics as Practical Philosophy
Recommended Reading: Plato: The Republic. 2nd Book. (Can be found on web)
Week 2: Justice and Coordination
Recommended Readings: Alisdair MacIntyre: After Virtue. Chapter 14: "The Nature of the Virtues" (https://epistemh.pbworks.com/f/4.+Macintyre.pdf ) 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
Recommended Readings: Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Moral and Legislation. Chapters 1-4. (https://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html) http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/45.marquis.pdf
Week 4: Economics as a Social Science
Recommended Readings: Ludwig von Mises: Human Action. Introduction and Chapter I "Acting Man" (https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf ) 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, Post Keynesian Economics and Justice
Recommended Readings: 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 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
Recommended Readings: Immanuel Kant: Toward Perpetual Peace, Introduction, Section 1, Section 2. https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1795_1.pdf 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: Self-realization
Recommended Readings: 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 ) 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
Recommended Readings: John Stuart Mill: On Liberty. Chapters 1 and 2. (https://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlLbty.html) https://bigthink.com/thinking/is-speech-violence/
Week 9: Constitutional Economics
Recommended Readings: This time, it is about listening to James Buchanan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178aognlYHA https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/singer.pdf https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/cohen.pdf
Week 10: Justice and Democracy
Recommended 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
Week 12: Ethics, People and Society
Recommended 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. (11.06.2025)
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