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Ethics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:29.08.2024 11:14:22
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LUSDK_218 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Philosophy | Target Audience: | Public Health | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Reinis Vilciņš | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, socdk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061575 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The course objective is to introduce students to the main theories and issues of philosophical ethics. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | General introduction to ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Ethics, free will, and self | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Ethical reasoning | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Theories of normative ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Consequentialist and duty-based ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Virtue ethics, natural law, and human rights | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Metaethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 8 | Applied ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Singer, P. Practical Ethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 3rd edition, 2011. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Hume, D. A Treatise on Human Nature. Bk. III, pt. 1, sec. 1. | ||||||||
| 3 | Irbe, A. Par kādu šķirkli Nacionālajā enciklopēdijā | ||||||||
| 4 | Kants, I. Tikumu metafizikas pamatojums. Tulk. R. Kūlis. Rīga: Zinātne, 2020. | ||||||||
| 5 | Mill, J. S. Utilitarianism, 1861. | ||||||||
| 6 | Neiders, I. Ārsta asistēta nāve [šķirklis] | ||||||||
| 7 | MacKinnon, B., Fiala, A. Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues. Cengage Learning, 2014. | ||||||||
| 8 | Vorbertons, N. Filozofijas pamati. Rīga: Raka, 2001 [1999]. 34.-55. lpp. | ||||||||
| 9 | Mūrs, Dž. E. Morālās filosofijas daba // Kentaurs, 2000., Nr. 21 | ||||||||
| 10 | Makintairs, A. Vai patriotisms ir tikums? // Mūsdienu politiskā filosofija. R., 1998 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Lasmane, S. Rietumeiropas Morāles filozofija. Antoloģija, LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2006. | ||||||||
| 2 | Lasmane, S. 20. gadsimta ētikas pavērsieni. Rīga, 2004 | ||||||||
