Practical Ethics
Study Cycle: 2
Lectures: 15
Seminars: 15
Tutorials: 30
ECTS credit: 4
Lecturer(s): asist. dr. Kravanja Aljoša, viš. znan. sod. dr. Hajdini Simon
- Practical ethics as problem solving ethics
- Methodological problems of practical ethics (schools of ethical thought, different approaches to problem solving, thought experiments etc.).
- Expertise and ethical competence.
- Human rights, publicity and practical ethics.
- Cultural aspects of practical ethics.
- Questions of life and death (abortion, euthanasia, suicide, »the doctrine of double effect«).
- Genetic engineering, eugenics, human enhancement and cloning.
- Ethical problems of public health.
- Ethical status of animals and speciesism.
- The stakeholder and the shareholder model of business ethics.
- Artificial intelligence, robotics and ethics.
- Biocentric and anthropocentric environmental ethics.
- Justice of environmental and medical politics and institutions (intergenerational justice).
- Internet ethics.
• Singer, Peter (2008): Praktična etika, Založba Krtina. COBISS.SI-ID - 243065088
• Fukuyama, Francis (2006): Konec človeštva: posledice revolucije v biotehnologiji, Učila. COBISS.SI-ID - 122925824
• Moriarty, Jeffrey, "Business Ethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/ethics-business/>.
• http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0025/002539/253952e.pdf