Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
General Ethics
Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish
If the student is enrolled for the English track then classes for that subject will be taught in the same language.
Teaching staff
Please make an appointment by e-mail
Introduction
Professional activity, like our personal life, involves morality and personal responsibility. Ethics seeks to reflect on this by providing concepts and a framework for moral behaviour. Formally, ethics is the branch of philosophy that considers what is good and bad in human life and which actions are right or wrong. In a more general sense, ethics tries to determine how we ought to live.
In this course we will firstly explore the history of ethical thought. Secondly, we will discuss some key ethical concepts and issues that can help to shape sound moral reasoning and correct behaviour in professional life. Thirdly, we will study a branch of ethics termed “areteology”, in which the central claim is that certain traits of character (virtues) are essential for good behaviour. We also discuss how character has an influence on business leadership.
Pre-course requirements
There are no previous requirements.
Objectives
1) To provide students with theoretical tools for analysing human behaviour.
2) To introduce students to the use of the basic elements of moral thought and the main concepts in ethics.
Competencies
- 50 - To acquire the ability to relate concepts, analyse and synthesise.
- 51 - To develop decision making skills.
- 52 - To develop interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.
- 54 - To be able to express one’s ideas and formulate arguments in a logical and coherent way, both verbally and in writing.
- 56 - To be able to create arguments which are conducive to critical and self-critical thinking.
- 57 - To acquire skills which favour reading comprehension.
- 60 - To acquire knowledge that promotes respect for other cultures and habits.
- 62 - To acquire mechanisms that facilitate the adoption of ethical commitments.
- 63 - To be able to analyse business related behaviour and decisions and evaluate them from an economic, social and ethical point of view.
Learning outcomes
Students who take this course will learn ethical concepts, increase their sensitivity to the role of moral character in professional activity, and develop their capacity to identify values and ethical issues, and to exercise ethical judgements in particular situations.
Syllabus
Syllabus:
Theme 1. Introduction. What is ethics?
Theme 2. Historical refences
Theme 3. The meaning of life. Ultimate end.
Theme 4. Happiness
Theme 5. Virtue
Theme 6. Voluntary actions
Theme 7. Practical virtues
Theme 8. Justice
Theme 9. Intellectual virtues
Theme 10. Autogobierno e incontinencia
Theme 11. Friendship
Theme 12. Excellence
Evaluation systems and criteria
In blended
50% Practical work and exercises
Practical work consists on work in class, practical cases and answers through Foro in Moodle. This anwers through the Foro are compulsory in the weeck in which corresponds to attend the classe from home and will be evaluated as equivalent to attendance.
The attendace is compulsory. The 80% of it is necesary to pass the subject.
50% final examination
Final examination:
The two scores must be over 5, otherwise the final mark will be never over 4.75
Note on academic honesty: All work you submit for this course must be entirely your own. The words or ideas of others must not in your written work without giving proper acknowledgement. Plagiarism will not be tolerated in any form.
Resit: the evaluation criteria for the second sitting is the same as for the first sitting. The same applies the part corresponding to practical. Exercises that cannot be repeated will be replaced by others. In the second call, in addition to the written exercices an oral exam will be compulsory. The evaluation of practical work will be done on this interview.
DUE TO THE CINSCUMSTANCES PROVOQUED BY COVID-19 THE 1ND CALL EXAMNS WILL TAKE PLACE BY MEET. ALL STUDENTS MUT ARRANGE THE APPOINTEMENT BY EMAIL
Bibliography and resources
ARENDT, H., The human condition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1998
ARISTÓTELES, Ética a Nicómaco. Ed. bilingüe, Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Madrid, 1970.
BASTONS, M.; La toma de decisiones en la organización, Ariel, Barcelona 2000
BOSCH, M.; La ética amable, EUNSA, Pamplona 2015
CICERO, On Dities; On friendship; On old age
GRISEZ, G., y SHAW, R., Ser persona. Curso de Ética, Rialp, Madrid, 1993.
LLANO, A.; La vida lograda, Ariel, Barcelona 2006
MACINTYRE, A., After Virtue. A study in moral theory. Notre Dame University Press, Nostre Dame (Indiana) 3rd edition 2007
MARÍAS, J. La felicidad humana, Alianza, Madrid, 1989.
MENSCH, J., Ethics and Selfhood. Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation, State University of New York Press, NY, 2003.
PIEPER, J. The four cardinal virtues, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 2014
RODRÍGUEZ LUÑO, A. Ética, Eunsa, Pamplona, 1986.
SENECA, Sobre la felicidad, Alianza, Madrid 1997
SPAEMANN, R., Happines and benevolence, University of Notre Dame Press, Nostre Dame 2000
TAYLOR, Ch.; La ética de la autenticidad, Paidós, Barcelona 1994
TRIGO, T.; En busca de una ética universal: un nuevo modo de ver la ley natural. Eunsa. Pamplona 2011
YEPES STORK, R. Fundamentos de antropología. Un ideal de la existencia humana. Eunsa. Pamplona. 1996.
Teaching and learning material
- article proyecto vital
- cas practic margin call
- English group Are good and evil relative
- English Group Case study Marcos Callado
- English group CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE 1
- English group CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE 2
- English group Conviction and responsibility
- English group Courage and moderation
- English group Education
- English group Equanimity
- English group Gratitude
- English group Justice
- English group Justice
- English group Loyalty
- English group Magnanimity
- English Group Moral relativism
- English Group Presentation Contemporaneous Ethics
- English group Presentation Fundamental Human Virtues
- English Group Presentation History of ethics I
- English Group Presentation History of ethics II
- English group Presentations by teams
- English group Presentations Responsability and moral judgements
- English group Prudence
- English group Sachs, Aristotle's ethics
- English group Should we always follow our conscience
- English group The unconditional
- English group Truthfulness
- English group Upbringing
- English Group What is a person
- secret happiness