Ethics and Public Life
Course type
Study programme and level
Language
slovenščina
Semester
| Lectures | Seminar | Tutorial | Other forms of study | Individual Work | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 120 | 5 |
Course Content:
1. Ethics – General Outline:
– Definition, purpose and objectives of ethics, ethics and other disciplines.
– Human, human dignity and the nature of basic ethical experience.
– Ethical traditions, dimensions of ethical theories and major moral positions.
– Man as a symbolic, responsible being and as a being of community.
– Justice, person, freedom, solidarity and dialogue.
– Personalism, instrumentalism and nihilism.
– Virtues and virtue ethics, ethics as an art of life, meaning of life.
– Key questions and problems of modern and postmodern ethics.
2. Ethics and Public Life:
– Moral dialogue and moral debate.
– Democratic and hierarchical social order.
– Problems and challenges of Slovenian transition society.
– Changes in the modern ways of living and the establishment of public space.
– Fairness/justice and stability of the state.
– The problems of ecology, sustainable and just development of the world.
– The ethics of modern media society.
– Religious communities and their role vs. the state.
3. Ethics and Law:
– Law, ethics and equity/justice.
– Human rights and duties (philosophical perspectives).
– Delivering justice, subsidiarity and the values of law, sovereignty.
– Importance of law for flourishing and morality of society.