Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaClassroom Ethics
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English,
Head instructor
Dr. Ignacio MACPHERSON - imacpherson@uic.es
Dra. María Remedios AGULLES - ragulles@uic.es
Office hours
By appointment by writing to ragulles@uic.es
The study of Anthropology held in the first semester provides a consistent and complete view of the human person. This is required to address, in the second semester and in the subject of Ethical Classroom, the analysis and understanding of human ethical behavior. The subject of Ethical Classroom is also an introduction to philosophical ethics that includes the general ideas and concepts that will later make the Specific Ethics for Health Sciences - Bioethics - understandable. There, a number of topical issues will be selected to show the practical role played by ethics in everyday life.
Basic knowledge of Anthropology.
1- Positively encourage students to search for truth by giving them the required intellectual tools.
2- Learn to admire beauty and arouse interest in the world and the historical period they have to live in.
3- Encourage students' sensitivity towards ethical problems. Give them a basic terminology to understand the factors involved in human behavior.
4- Introduce students to the main assumptions and principles of ethics to be able to identify ethical issues in the health care field as well as in personal and social spheres.
5- Arise, as far as possible, students' awareness of their moral duties and personal responsibility.
6- Provide students with the essential knowledge to make ethically correct decisions in various situations, in professional, personal and social life.
7- Show the need to integrate ethical values in personal life and live according to fundamental virtues as a means to get closer to happiness.
The acquisition of the objectives proposed in the highest possible degree for each student.
1. THE RATIONAL FOUNDATION OF ETHICS
1.1 . The moral phenomenon.
1.2 . Meaning of the terms 'ethics' and 'moral'.
1.3 . The basis of ethical criteria and standards.
2. HUMAN ACTION
2.1. Underlying principles of human acts.
2.2 . Ethical components of acts.
2.3 . Effects of acts.
2.4 . Conflictive situations.
3. FREEDOM AND MORAL CHOICE
3.1 . Introduction. Methodology.
3.2 . Degrees of freedom.
3.3 . Coordinates of freedom.
3.4. Limits of freedom.
3.5. Bibliography and support materials
4. NATURAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
4.1 . Natural Law.
4.2 . The discovery of natural law. Synderesis.
4.3 . Characteristics of natural law.
4.4 . The contents of natural law. First principles.
4.5. The role of personal moral dispositions.
4.6 . Human Rights. Three Statements .
5. HUMAN CONSCIENCE
5.1 . Ethical or moral conscience.
5.2 . Modalities of conscience.
5.3 . Imperatives of conscience.
5.4 . Principles to follow one's conscience.
5.5 . The formation of conscience.
5.6 . Phases of the development of conscience (L. Kohlberg ) .
5.7 . Conscience and public authorities.
5.8 . Usual deformations of conscience.
6. VIRTUES AND VALUES
6.1 . On the terms 'value' and 'virtue'.
6.2 . Nature and need of virtue.
6.3 . The acquisition of virtues.
6.4 . Virtue as the golden mean.
6.5 . Virtues as the basis of ethical standards.
6.6 . The fundamental virtues. Concept and origin.
6.7 . Temperance and self control. Modesty. Leisure.
6.8 . Fortitude or courage.
6.9 . Justice.
6.10. Prudence.
7. SOCIAL LIFE. PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME
7.1 . Fundamental principles for social life.
7.2 . Distinction between morality and legality.
7.3 . Discrimination. Ethical concept.
7.4 . Racial and sexual discrimination.
7.5 . War. Concept and legitimacy.
7.6 . The defense of a third party, civil war and preventive war.
7.7. Pacifism. Violence. Ethical concept.
7.8 . Radical fundamentalisms.
8. FRIENDSHIP AND AFFECTIVITY
8.1 . The dignity or perfection of the human person
8.2 . The personalist principle.
8.3 . Friendship as reciprocal love-affection.
8.4 . The 'life partner'.
8.5 . Marital love: integration of emotion and love.
9. ETHICS AND THE MEDIA
9.1 . Communication .
9.2 . Information.
9.3 . Lie as a manipulation.
9.4 . Protection against informative manipulation.
9.5 . Respect for privacy.
10. PROFESSIONAL WORK
10.1 . The meaning of professional work.
10.2 . General principles of justice in professional relationships.
10.3 . Rationality of duty in professional work.
10.4 . Relationship between employers and employees .
10.5 . Professionals involved in a perverse market structure.
The student will have two types of activities:
a) A lecture during the first half of the session, where the teacher presents the corresponding topic.
b) A seminar, generally during the second half of the session. During this time, two types of activities are carried out: first, students review the contents that have been explained in the lecture and / or study a document they are provided with; second, they individually answer a series of questions about the class and the document, which are to be scored. After the submission of the answers, the teacher proceeds to give the correct answers and discusses any doubt.
Passmark for the subject is 5.
- Attendance, participation in classes, text analysis, partial tests: 40%
- Individual final written exam: 60%
Cheating, forgery, impersonation or fraud in individual or team written assignments, in classes attendance, in written or oral examinations is a major offense that carries being considered immediately failed in the subject. In case of relapse, disciplinary proceedings will be open against the author / s. View : DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS OF UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA. CHAPTER I. DISCIPLINARY OFFENSES. Section 2. g ) h )
Main sources:
-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Several publishers.
-Frankl, Viktor, Man's Search for Meaning. Buccaneer Books.
-Lewis, C. S., The Four Loves, Mariner Books.
-MacIntyre, Alasdair, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame Press.
-Spaemann, Robert, Basic Moral Concepts, Routledge.
-Spaemann, Robert, Happiness and Benevolence, T&T Clark.
Complementary sources:
-Ayllón, José Ramón, Ética Razonada, Palabra.
-Ayllón, José Ramón, La buena vida. Una propuesta ética, Martínez Roca.
-Ayllón, José Ramón, Introducción a la Ética,Palabra.
-Chalmeta, Gabriel, Ética Social. Familia, profesión y ciudadanía. EUNSA.
-Duoc UC, Apuntes de Ética.
-García Marqués, A. – Zúnica Ramejo, I., Civis Bonus, ISABOR & AVK VERLAG.
-Gómez Pérez, Rafael, Problemas morales de la existencia humana, ME, S.A.
-Grisez, Germain – Shaw, Russell, Beyond the New Morality. The Responsibilities of Freedom. University of Notre Dame Press.
-Pieper, Josef, The Four Cardinal Virtues, University of Notre Dame Press.
-Rodríguez Luño, Ángel, Ética general, EUNSA.
-Yepes, Ricardo – Aranguren, Javier, Fundamentos de Atropología. EUNSA.
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