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Course title Ethics
Course code Filz1004
Credit points (ECTS) 3
Total Hours in Course 81
Number of hours for lectures 16
Number of hours for seminars and practical classes 16
Independent study hours 49
Date of course confirmation 22/03/2011
Responsible Unit Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities
 
Course developers
Dr. phil., doc. Juris Vuguls

There is no prerequisite knowledge required for this course
 
Course abstract
Students will acquire main ethical categories, development of ethical ideas and conceptions, the ethical values. During the study course students analyze ethical ideas nowadays. There are lectures and discussions at seminars, group work and presentations as the methods are used in study course.
Learning outcomes and their assessment
Knowledge: The study course gives enlarged understanding about main development periods of ethics; knowledge about main ethical categories, paradigms and conceptions. General knowledge about human, personality, his/her value and position in the changing world.
Skills: During the study course students will elaborate skills of analyzing ethical ideas nowadays. The material and approaches in this study course help elaborate skills to view problems in wide contexts; learning skills; critical thinking and ability to make independent and sound judgments; skills of listening, dialogue and communication. Competence: analyzing and solving general ethical problems in modern society
Compulsory reading
1. Praktiskā filozofija. Jelgava: LLU, 2008. 549 lpp.
2. Lasmane S., Milts A., Rubenis A. Ētika. Rīga: Zvaigzne, 1995. 240 lpp.
3. Milts A. Ētika. Ētika: saskarsmes ētika: lekciju kurss. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2004. 4. Ingrems D., Pārksa Dž. Ceļvedis ētikā. Rīga: Dienasgrāmata, 2011. 432.
Further reading
1. Rietumeiropas morāles filozofija. Antoloģija. Rīga: LU akad. apgāds, 2006.
2. Lasmane S. Rietumeiropas ētika no Sokrāta līdz postmodernismam. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 1998.
3. Rubenis A. Ētika XX gadsimtā. Praktiskā ētika. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 1996. 4. Klīve V.V. Rīcības ceļos. Rīga: Zinātne 1998.
Periodicals and other sources
1. Rīgas Laiks. SIA "Rīgas laiks" ISSN 1407-1622.
2. Вопроси философии. Mосква: "Наука". ISSN 0042-8744. 3. The Journal of Ethics ISSN 1572-8609 (electronic version)