Normative Ethics and Theory of Action
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 0
ECTS credit: 3
Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Potrč Matjaž
Topics:
- the subject matter, role and goals of ethics: practical and theoretical goals,
- structure of moral theory and basic ethical categories: theories of the right action and value theory; moral principle, duty, value (moral and non-moral); valuation of moral theories,
- kinds of ethics: metaethics, normative ethics, practical ethics,
- normative moral theories: virtue ethics, theory of god's commandment, natural law, Kantian ethics, classical and contemporary utilitarianism, moral pluralism, moral relativism,
- key authors: Plato, Aristotle, Augustin, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Mill, Sidgwick, Moore, Rawls and others,
- practical ethics: the structure of discussion,
- ethics and action theory: action, agency, agent, intention, reasons, actions.
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Dancy, J. Practical Reality (Oxford: OUP, 2000), str. 1-25, 98-120. EBSCOhost Ebook Academic Collection - World Wide (https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/111087313312290)
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Kant, I. Utemeljitev metafizike nravi (Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2005), izbrani odlomki/selected sections. COBISS.SI-ID - 226428928
Dancy, Jonathan. 2000. Normativity. New York: Oxford University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 47778914
Mill, J.S. Utilitarizem in O svobodi (Ljubljana: Krtina, 2003), izbrani odlomki/selected sections. COBISS.SI-ID - 126185216
Rawls, J. A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971/1999), str. 3-46. COBISS.SI-ID - 36517986
Strahovnik, V. Moralne dileme in moralna teorija. Analiza, 2008, 12(3): 29-60. COBISS.SI-ID - 67716608
Timmons, M. Moral Theory: An Introduction (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). https://plus.cobiss.net/cobiss/si/sl/bib/fflj/2550000000707329#full