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The Concept of Social Justice According to Thomas Aquinas
ŠÁDEK, Kryštof
This thesis deals with a concept of social justice in the works of Thomas Aquinas. First, the notion of the social justice is defined based on the writings of authors John Rawls and Robert Nozick. Next follows analysis of relevant passages from the texts of Thomas Aquinas to show such a concept. The last part focuses on the analysis of gained results and uses the hypothesis of Alasdair MacIntyre to put forward an argument that the current concept of social justice falls short of robust concept of virtue ethics expanded by Thomas Aquinas.
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Social Criticism in the Book of Micah
FIBICHOVÁ, Johana
The bachelor thesis deals with a comprehensive description of the social criticism in the book of Micah in its historical, social and contemporary context. The introductory chapter provides background information on the book of Micah. The next chapter is devoted to the historical context, especially the history of the kingdom of Judah in the second half of the 8th century BC. The next part of the thesis deals with the social context, describing the shape of Israelite and Judahite society in the 8th century BC, with a focus on the relations between the upper and lower social classes. The next chapter contains an interpretation of passages in which social criticism occurs. The last chapter compares the issue of foreclosures in contemporary Czech society with the issue of seizure of peasants' property in the book of Micah.
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Intersectionality From the Perspective of Feminist Activist Collectives in the Czech Republic
Dařílková, Linda ; Kobová, Ĺubica (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
Intersectionality is a topic that resonates with feminist activist collectives in the Czech Republic. Half of the collectives included in this research publicly identify as intersectional, while most of the remaining collectives identify with intersectionality at least to some extent. However, intersectionality is a complex theoretical concept, and one can ask how the collectives understand intersectionality and how they translate it into their practice. Much of the interviews revealed that discursive approaches to intersectionality are driven by an ethos of social justice, i.e. a better world for all. This implies an appeal to inclusivity, which was differentiated in several interviews between inward and outward inclusivity. Outward inclusivity was manifested by including more areas of social justice in the discourse and actions of the collective. At the discursive and practical level, I identified other, equally important, approaches to intersectionality, which I describe in this thesis. Intersectionality, in relation to the actual self-identification of collectives, also expresses an effort to distance oneself from exclusionary strands of feminism or activism in general, and in this respect intersectionality can also take on a normative character. Despite the research participants' largely (but...
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Ethical and Political Implications of Thomas Piketty's Work on Economic Inequality
Miledova, Linda ; Salamon, Janusz (advisor) ; Benáček, Vladimír (referee)
French Economist Thomas Piketty, through a study of history and empirical data from different cultures and generations, argues that economic inequality, today, is not a natural outcome of the free market but has deeper roots. Piketty, indeed, asserts, through his extensive analysis of political systems and ideologies, that the trajectory of income inequality depends heavily on the power exercised by the state and other politically-motivated groups that aim to execute their personal agendas at the cost of the rest of society, namely, middle and lower classes. A historical and comparative analysis between various nations and how they justified inequalities in their governments shows that these gaps are politically driven. The results of a colonial eras and the wars are pure proof that inequalities are intentional and certain groups make sure that some countries and classes suffer from poverty for further control and power. Piketty claims that this status quo has become unsustainable and that global legislative changes ought to be implemented to reduce the gap between the rich minorities and lower classes. The French author proposes a progressive wealth tax that would impose higher taxes on wealthier individuals with capitals and assets. The revenues from these taxes will be used to better public...
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Solidarity in the social work
ČÍHÁKOVÁ, Tereza
The thesis deals with the concept of solidarity. The theoretical part characterizes the notion of the solidarity, the importance of solidarity in different countries, as well as the importance of solidarity in social policy and political ethics. The brief historical development of solidarity is further described. The penultimate chapter of the theoretical section is devoted to solidarity from the perspective of the Church and the union of solidarity with the person of Jesus Christ. At the conclusion of the theoretical part, the types of solidarity and the summary of the theoretical part are given. The practical part focuses on qualitative research to see how social workers in different areas of social work understand the concept of solidarity. The interview includes three parts. The first part focuses on meaning of the concept of solidarity for social workers. It is further clarified how much solidarity is important in the organisation, where they work. The last part of the interview is focused on expressions of solidarity between co-workers and clients. The conclusion of the theoretical part includes an evaluation of the research, in which there is also a comparison of respondents' responses. At the end of my bachelor's thesis, I present options for social workers on how to work with solidarity and the interconnectedness of solidarity with social work.
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Critical Social Work
SCHWABOVÁ, Tereza
This bachelor thesis is theoretical thesis and it deals with theme of critical social work. Its aim is to describe and define all terms related to critical social work, its methods and approaches, and to create integrated literary source of critical social work theory. Because in Czech Republic critical social work is used minimally and that is why there is just a small amount of Czech literary sources on this topic. The thesis is divided into several chapters describing particular themes related to critical social work. Interdiction describes methods used while producing this thesis such as content analysis of literary sources and SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis result reveals that the biggest limitations of critical social work in Czech Republic are fear of change or using traditional social work approaches. Despite the fact that in Czech Republic this critical approach could be beneficial for working with clients from socially excluded localities and ethnic groups. Afterwards there is described social work, its formation, values, paradigms or approaches. And defined basic terms related to critical social work, such as its formation, methods and particular approaches of this kind of social work. And then there are stated examples of organizations that practice social work with features of critical social work. Conclusion summarizes whole making process or content of this thesis and recommendations for further research. A large amount of foreign and Czech literary or online sources were used while producing this thesis. From this sources were chosen and used relevant information, facts and findings that were congruently used by authors of this sources. And the text of this bachelor thesis was created. This thesis should be used as source of theoretical information about critical social work, also as promotion of critical social work evolution in Czech Republic or at least as a motivation tool for integration of critical thinking in social work practice.
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Social Ethical Aspects of Welfare State
GALÍKOVÁ, Alice
Diploma paper is considering social ethical aspects of Welfare State. In the introduction is characterized Welfare State, it´s history, attitudes to it and the elementary typology of social state. The main part of the paper is divided into three parts - human being, family and state in relation to social state. Each chapter consists of describing part and social ethical critic of Welfare State effect, which was the aim of paper. From all three angles on that issue it appears that negative influence of contemporary (that means overinflated) is dominant. First of all it´s loss of responsibility for persnons own life, loss of motivation to work, own initiative and creativity and creating dependence on social benefits. There is obvious fundamental negative effect on family functionality, which social roles was mostly taken by state. Constant increasing of social benefits outgoings in exchange for political support of left-wing parties appears as destructive. This fact could eventually endanger democratic growth of state.
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Rawls's Conception of Justice and His Critic F. A. von Hayek
Polenová, Monika ; Blažková, Miloslava (advisor) ; Hauser, Michael (referee)
The work focuses on analyzing the concept of justice as fairness in the political and moral philosophy. Mapping the development of opinion on the fairness of the ancient world, which will deal mainly with access to justice in Platon and Aristoteles. Particular attention will be paid to the concept of justice in the social contract T. Hobbes, J. Locke, J. J. Rousseau and I. Kant. The core work will consist of an analysis of John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness and approach to social justice by Friedrich August von Hayek. Keywords: theory of justice, social contract, social fairness, civil society, morality
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Revolta project - new political direction
Šulcová, Kristýna ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Project Revolta - new political direction?" analyses the group Revolta.info. This group tries to create a more complex idea, which called the Third way and defines particularly against communism and capitalism. The group tries to prevent their inclusion in right - wing and left - wing political spectrum. The group defines itself also againts the current political system. The main values that Revolta.info recognize are nacionalism and social justice. The group is profiled by their website, where we can find their manifest, historical roots and specific cases of their activities. To their promotion they are using the new kinds of ways in order to distinguish them from other extremist groups. This bachelor thesis includes theoretical definition of basic concepts and political ideologies. For comparision thesis describes exremist scene since early 90s. The aim of this thesis is ideologically classified Revolta.info and its The Third way and determinate, wheather their methods are different from classical methods, that use extreme right. This thesis is also focused on active work of group and its promotion, that is main way to reach out new supporters. In this thesis is look on promotion activities in perspective of Revolta.info, but also by terms of reports of security forces in...
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The Czech Republic pension system - developments after 1989 and its reform
Belčev, Daniel ; Potůček, Martin (advisor) ; Duškov, Ivan (referee)
The present thesis focuses on the analysis of the Czech pension system reform. In order to understand the respective consequences, the analysis is put into the context of the development of the Czech pension system after 1989. In addition to the value aspect, attention is paid to the demographic, legislative, political, economic, social, institutional and international aspects of the pension system, its arrangement, financing and financial sustainability. The comparison of the pension reform implemented by the coalition government of Prime Minister Petr Nečas with the concept of pension reform of the opposition Czech Social Democratic Party by the criteria of budgetary responsibility, quality of life of pensioners, solidarity, social justice, equivalence and resilience of pension reform in time is also emphasised. Theoretical bases include the theory of path dependency, the theory of institutionalism, the welfare state theory, the theory of corporatism and the criterion anchoring of the reform. The present thesis applies the method of analysis of secondary data and the method of comparative analysis. To obtain secondary data, methods of document and data record searching are utilised.
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