Ethics

The course is a substitute for:

Ethics for Engineers (16ETI)

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Economics, Management and Humanities

Synopsis:

Aim of this subject is to provide the students an orientation not only in general problems of ethics but above all to offer instructions for solving various situations of human life. Essential parts of the subject are discussions in which students can react to lectures but also to actual questions coming with news and look for the communal answers.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Ethics as philosophical discipline, history.

2. Fundamental ethics, basic categories of ethics.

3. Sources and contents of human manners, rules of correct manners.

4. Natural, positive and embedded law as sources of moral rules, conscience.

5. Free moral act, virtue as habituation of good manners.

6. Moral failure, sin, vice as habituation of bad manners.

7. Relation of human to transcendental and metaphysical substantialities and its tokens.

8. Ethics of human relations: friendship, love, marriage, family.

9. Relations of individual to society and state, human rights, discrimination, revolution.

10. Relation of human to life at all and especially to human life and health.

11. Sexual ethics.

12. Economic ethics, possession, forms of its acquisition and keeping.

13. Scientific and research work, technical progress.

14. Problematic of truht in human life.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. Karl-Heinz Peschke, Christliche Ethik, Trier: Paulinus Verlag. 1995

2. Helmut Weber, Allgemeine Moraltheologie, Graz-Wien-Koln: Verlag Styria. 1991

3. Arno Anzenbacher, Einfuhrung in die Ethik, Dusseldorf: Patmos Verlag.1992

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

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