Normative Ethics and Theory of Action

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.