History of Ethics

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Deepening and expanding knowledge of the history of ethics for the PhD students who are focused on the study of ethics and who will write doctoral thesis in the field of ethics.

Course description: The emergence of ethics in the 5th century BC, the distinction physis-nomos, sophistic movement, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoic and Epicurean ethics, the origins of Christianity and its philosophical connection with ancient roots (Augustine, Aquinas, etc.), Hume's practical philosophy, philosophical shift in Kant and Kant's moral philosophy, further development of ethics after Kant, the emergence of utilitaranism – Bentham and Mill, further development of utilitarianism (Sidgwick), further development of deontic ethics (D. Ross), the emergence of metaethics, restoration of virtue ethics and aristotelianism, emergence of new ethical directions ( feminist ethics, environmental aproach), the emergence and development of applied ethics, the basic structure of applied ethics.

Learning Outcomes: Expanding the knowledge of a wide range of relevant facts from the history of ethics, either as a basis for independent work in this area or as a means to illustrate ethical research in other areas.

Literature/Reading:

• Značajna dela iz istorije etike od antike do danas.
• A. Mekintajer, Kratka istorija etike, Beograd 2000
• Aristotel, Nikomahova etika, Beograd 2013
• Platon, Država, Beograd 2013
• Hobz, Levijatan, Beograd 1961
• Dž. S. Mil, Utilitarizam, Beograd 2003
• Kant, Zasnivanje metafizike morala, Beograd 1981
• H. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics (7th edition), London 1907
• Epikur, Osnovne misli, Beograd 2005
• Epiktet, Priručnik, Zagreb 2006
• B. Spinoza, Etika (knjige 3-5), Beograd 1970
• J. Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of the Morals and Legislation, Oxford 1907
• Dž. S. Mil, O slobodi, Beograd 1998
• I. Kant, Kritika praktičkog uma, Beograd 1979
• F. Niče, Genealogija morala, Beograd 1986
• Dž. E. Mur, Principi etike, Beograd 1998
• D. Ross, The Right and the Good, Oxford 2002