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Course code: BHS10008f12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: ETHICS
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: mgr Tadeusz Sabiniewicz
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: The result of lectures on ethics is a shaping of moral sensitivity and ability to assess phenomenon within the cathegories of good and evil, as well as acquirement of ability to set in order one’s own convictions from the point of a system of values recognized by oneself.
Competences: Lectures deliver knowledge enabling an ethical assessement of human attitudes.
Prerequisites: The humanities within the secondary school curriculum.
Course content: Basic notions of ethics: nature of ethics, realism, naturalism, subjectivity, relativism; classic christian ethics: St. Thomas Aquinas natural law; utilitarianism J. Bentham, J. St. Mill; post-modernist ethics: Z. Bauman post-modern personality models; ethics of natural environment and its main trends; ethics of animal protection of P. Singer; euthanasia and medical ethics; abortion and a human person issue; tolerance.
Recommended literature: Vardy P., Grosch P., ,,Ethics”, Z-sk and Co., Poznan 1994 ,,A guide on ethics” under supervision of Singer P., Książka i Wiedza, Warsaw 1998
Assessment methods: Compulsory written or orall pass Level of knowledge required to complete: 60%
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