Ethics

1. Introductory lectures on the basic anthropological assumptions of moral agency (the diaphoric, the symbolic, freedom).
2. Ethics as practical philosophy.
3. Typology of basic ethical guidelines.
4. Genealogy of moral judgment (Piaget, Kohlberg).
5. Morality, ethics and religion.
6. Difference between ethics and morals, ethicalness and morality, autonomy and heteronomy.
7. The problem of relativism and the possibility of universal ethical norms and values.
8. Short history of basic ethical concepts (Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Christianity, Spinoza, Kant, Utilitarianism).
9. During the tutorials, students under the guidance of assistant critically read and interpret selected basic texts and in short verbal performances practice and consolidate the rhetorical skills.

1) Platon: Gorgija, v: Platon, Celje 2006, str. 846-858 oz. 481d-497a, 867-882. COBISS.SI-ID - 225728000

2) Aristotel: Nikomahova etika, Ljubljana 1994, str. 47-60 oz. I 1-6, 61-69 oz. I 9-11, 70-110 oz. I 13 do III 8, 118-121 oz. III 13, 153-169 oz. V 1-9, 178-182 oz. V 13-14, 241-270 oz. VIII, 285-288 oz. IX8, 312-328 oz. X6-10. COBISS.SI-ID - 45914624

3) Spinoza: Etika, Ljubljana 1988, str. 259-359. COBISS.SI-ID - 6970112

4) Kant, Immanuel: Kritika praktičnega uma, Ljubljana 1993, str. 5-87, 118-127. COBISS.SI-ID - 34628865

5) Mill, John Stuart: Utilitarizem in o Svobodi, Ljubljana 2003, str. 15-49. COBISS.SI-ID - 126185216

6) Nietzsche: H genealogiji morale, Ljubljana 1988, str. 215-243, 270-272, 279-282, 344-345. COBISS.SI-ID - 6682112