|
|
|
||
The course will offer an elementary insight into basic ethical concepts, drawing mainly on the work of two prominent ancient philosophers - Plato and Aristotle. These will be later contrasted with two great figures representing two branches of the european enlightenment: David Hume and Immanuel Kant.
Poslední úprava: Synek Stanislav, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2019)
|
|
||
Obligatory:
Poslední úprava: Synek Stanislav, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.02.2019)
|
|
||
The seminar will be based on commenting excerpts from primary texts. Students will be asked to send a short reflection of chosen passages on weekly basis. 1. Care for soul (Plato: Apology, Phaedo) 2. Soul and body (Plato: Phaedo) 3. Power of rhetoric, appetites and pleasures vs. reason and moderation (Plato: Gorgias) 4. What is happiness? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics I) 5. What is virtue? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics II) 6. What is a deliberation? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics III) 7. What is pleasure? (Aristotle, Nicomechean Ethics VII, X) 8. Pleasure as the highest good (Epicur: Letter to Menoeceus, Maxims: DL X 121-135, 139-154) 9. Stoics: Epiktetos (Enchyridion) 10. Hume: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (section 1-2) 11. Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction, 1st part 12. Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 2nd part Poslední úprava: Synek Stanislav, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.02.2019)
|
|
||
(1) short written assignments (50%) (2) colloquium (50%) Poslední úprava: Synek Stanislav, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.02.2019)
|