SylabUZ
| Course name | Social Ethics |
| Course ID | 08.1-WH-UZ-F-SE-2 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Humanities |
| Field of study | WH - oferta ERASMUS / Philosophy |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | Second-cycle Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2018/2019 |
| Semester | 1 |
| ECTS credits to win | 5 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
The main aim of this course is to give students an understanding of some major themes in the field of theoretical basis and application of ethics in social and economic practice. Students acquire competence in diagnosing problems and social pathologies. They read and interpret the source texts.
First of all students should have basic knowledge of the history of philosophy, ethics and sociology. Besides, they should know the basic philosophical terminology.
Natural and social factors in the development of morality. Moral sociology. Ethos of the functioning of the social group. Moral attitudes. Stages of human moral development. Utilitarianism theory and the question of the stand-ards of morality. Problem of conscience and social sanctions. Moral dilemmas of the modern world. Policy attitude to morality. Human morality in perspective of evolutionary psychology. Problem of poverty and social inequality in the world. Problem of social role of the justice and its principles in society. Conflicts in social ethics.
Work with source materials, situational method, case method, work in groups, staging
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Students will be evaluated in relation to their: systematic participation in classes, activity during discussion (evaluation during discussion), knowledge of the assigned reading (evaluation during meetings), written presentation of the chosen problem discussed during the course .
The final grade is a weighted sum of the above partial grades.
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism;
Maria Ossowska, Social determinants of moral ideas; London 1971;
John Rawls, The theory of justice; 1994;
Robert Wright – Moral Animal, Why We Are They Way We Are, The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, 1994;S
Steven Hitlin, Stephen Vaise, Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, 2010;
Bezpieczeństwo socjalne, pod red. L. Frąckiewicz, Wydawnictwo Akademii Ekonomicznej w Katowicach, Katowice 2003
V. Bourke, Historia etyki, Wydawnictwo „Krupski i S-ka.” Toruń 1994.
P. de Laubier, Myśl społeczna Kościoła katolickiego od Leona XIII do Jana Pawła II, przeł. Bogumił Luft, Michalineum, Warszawa - Kraków. 1988.
M. Ossowska, Socjologia moralności. Zarys zagadnień, PWN, Warszawa 1986.
Przewodnik po współczesnej filozofii politycznej, pod red. R.E. Goodina & Ph. Pettita, KiW, Warszawa 1998.
J. Hołówka, Etyka w działaniu, Wyd. Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa 2002.
W. Kymlicka, Współczesna filozofia polityczna, Znak, Kraków 1998.
R. Nozick, Anarchia, państwo, utopia, tłum. P. Maciejko, M. Szczubiałka, Aletheia, Warszawa 1999.
Przewodnik po etyce, pod red. P. Singera, KiW, Warszawa 1998.
Modified by dr hab. Piotr Bylica, prof. UZ (last modification: 05-02-2019 16:53)
