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Practical Philosophy. Ethics and Politics
Aarhus University
AU Summer University
| Application Deadline: | 15 March | ||
| Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 200 - ≈ € 1,512 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Aarhus / Denmark / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 26 days | Start Date: | July |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 10 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
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As publicly employed one has to make decisions concerning the use of public funds or authority. Such decisions demand reasons, which refer to norms beyond what is just good for me. The discussion of such norms is the business of practical philosophy, .i.e. ethics, politics, philosophy of law, education etc.
This course presents the forms of ethics and politics, which are most commonly discussed. In focus will be philosophers such as Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Rawls, and Levinas. Course offered by Department of Education.
Level -Master
Date 30 July - 24 August
Lecturers
Carsten Fogh and Luise Li Langergaard, Aarhus University
VENUE DESCRIPTION
AU Summer University will take place on campus in the architecturally renowned yellow-brick buildings in the beautiful university park.
At the venue you will have access to a helpdesk and service centre. You find our Main Help Desk in the International Centre and the opening hours are 08.30-15.00 from Monday to Friday.
The International Centre is the central hub for all international and PhD activities at Aarhus University, and in the same building you find Dale's Café. Here you can buy sandwiches, coffee, snacks, and beers. With its informal lounge area this is the ideal place to relax and hang out with your fellow Summer University students.
Contents
The aim is that participants after accomplishing the course have:
* Knowledge and overview of selected strands within classical and newer practical philosophy.
* Competence to formulate a perspectiviced account of normative reflections, positions and preconditions
* Competence to identify, reflect upon and clarify normative uncertainties of, as well as preconditions for, their own field of practice.
* Ability to keep informed and navigate in complex normative contexts
Content
The general aim of the course is to enable participants to recognize and deploy basic concepts and theoretical structures in classical as well as newer discussions in practical philosophy in order to be better at reflecting upon and stating reasons for their own practice. On a daily basis public employees make decisions that have the character of authority decisions which thus get their legitimacy from general norms of justice, care, duty, the good life etc. Public employees exercise power. Power should be exercised with authority and authority requires legitimacy.
Legitimacy can be distributed from above or created from below but generally the execution of power has to be well-founded i.e. it requires good reasons and statements of these reasons. These reasons are found and discussed in practical philosophy which includes ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of right, political economy, pedagogical philosophy etc. Public employees thus have to do right in a more general sense that just “what they themselves thinks is the right thing to do”. However, only few public employees have the theoretical knowledge and conceptual resources and competences needed in order to reflect upon, deal with and give reasons for the normative preconditions for their own practice.
The course presents a number of the most important positions and traditions in classical and modern practical philosophy – positions that implicitly or explicitly figure in present discussions today. Basic concepts will be duty, happiness, responsibility, rights, justice, democracy and value. Ethical positions that shall be treated include virtue ethics. Deontology, utilitarianism, contract theory, phenomenological ethics, discourse ethics, normative ethics and metaethics.
Politically philosophically there shall be introductions to contract theory, liberalism and conservativism. Central philosophers are among others Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Knus Ejler Løgstrup, Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Students coming as Free-movers/non-Partner students (EU and non-EU students who do not have a bilateral partnership agreement with Aarhus University) applying for AU Summer University courses must apply by using the online form attached to each individual course. Afterwards you must hand in the required documentation for your university studies. Please remark that all freemovers are obliged to pay participation fees where as tuition fees only apply to freemovers from countries outside the EU/EEA/Switzerland.
Requirements:
1. You are expected to have the same requirements that apply to regular students. Freemovers therefore need to provide documentation for their subject levels in applicable subjects. Mathemathics if applying for courses offered by the School of Business and Social Science. Mathematics, chemistry, and physics if applying for courses offered by Faculty of Science and Technology.
2. If you are applying for admission to AU Summer University courses at Master level, you must hold a relevant Bachelor's degree (Or as a minimum 180 ECTS in your study programme)
3. An English test as you are expected to have a high level of English proficiency
English language requirements - 'English B' and 'English A'
English language requirements for applicants with a non-Danish/Nordic entry qualification.
According to the Danish Ministry of Science's Order no. 181 on Admission to Danish Universities, and the Danish Ministry of Education’s Order no. 239 on Admission to Higher Education in Denmark (The Admission Order), all applicants must, as a minimum, document English language qualifications comparable to an "English B level" in the Danish upper secondary school (Gymnasium). A few courses require 'English A', which is one level higher than 'English B'.
English language qualifications can be documented as follows:
TOEFL:
English B – Test results of at least 560 (paper-based) or 83 (internet-based test)
English A – Test result of at least 600 (paper-based) or 100 (internet-based test)
IELTS:
English B – Test results with a minimum score of 6.5 points
English A – Test results with a minimum score of 7.0 points
Cambridge/Oxford:
English B – Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
English A – Certificate of Proficiency (CPE)
CEFR validated English language course:
English B – C1 level
English A – C2 level
”Native speakers” with an English taught qualifying exam (including applicants from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain). Applicants from all other countries (including African and Asian countries, where the exam has been taught in English) must submit a test.
Danish/Nordisk entrance examination
With an English level the Danish Agency for International Education considers comparable to a Danish B/A level in English.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
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