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The "Bodies" Probe into the Thinking of the Czech Society
Dobošová, Andrea ; Matějek, Jaromír (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
Having been on for ten years, "Bodies" The Exhibition still arouses strong controversial reactions. The authors of the exhibition of dead bodies speak about education, whereas the opponents object it is an unethical business. The Czech society has its system of values, which has developed over centuries. The objective of my Bachelor thesis is to monitor the social affairs, which reflect the change of mentality and orientation of values as influenced by new possibilities of self- fulfilment. In media, and not only there, a sheer variety of opinions was given on the exhibition. Leading Czech scholars, including medical doctors, theologians, journalists and art historians, gave their statements; their views being mostly a rejection. Judging from the number of tickets sold, the interest of the public to see the exhibition is great. The purpose of my thesis is to record a probe by means of the analytic method, within which I describe the Czech society in a specific conduct perceived by the majority as non-problematic. The current situation is an excellent way to learn about the real world we live in.
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Ethics in Publishing in the Czech Republic
Juhaňák, Stanislav ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Sládek, Karel (referee)
The thema of this bachelor's thesis is publishing ethics in the Czech republic. This issue has not been thoroughly worked out. In historical context, the attention was focused more likely on unauthorised reprints and copyrights infringement and - in Czechoslovakia between the world wars - on the publisher mission in the society. As has emerged from the interviews with publishers, everyone is guided by his own ethical code. We can distinguish publisher's personal/professional responsibility (technical quality), social responsobility (content of the book, acting on reader and society, relationship with internal and external employees and transcendental responsiblity (relationship to God). Nowadays, there is no unified publisher ethical code in the Czech republic. There are many situations in the practice which are perceived by some people as unethical, while other take them as part of their business. The target of this thesis is description of publishers' ethics through qualitative analysis of information drawn from the interviews with publishers (N=11) and their colleagues (N=17). In this thesis, there is outlined the wide spectrum of opinion on different ethical dilemmas represented by Christian and other publishers. They believe the publishing ethics gets better, they lay stress on creativity and...
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Advance directives. Risks and benefits.
Matějek, Jaromír ; Rethmann, Albert-Peter (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee) ; Prokop, Jiří Maxmilián (referee)
The thesis deals with the interpretation of "the advance directives". In particular, contexts are identified in which the interpretation is made. The thesis show the significance of the contexts from the interpretation of patients' texts. Their essential feature is a dynamism being independent on the patient's will, their unsteadiness and possibility to develop unexpectedly. These circumstances make a patient's text a hazardous tool.
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Issue of Abortion
Váňa, Miroslav ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Štica, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis is aimed at problems of abortion and simultaneously of a different view of theological and biological sciences that deal with these problems. Concurrently, it is necessary to offer an essential outline of basic embryological and medical processes which enable understanding the given problem in view of importance of this situation. On the one hand the thesis presents legal essentials related to the topic in a historical legal context, on the other hand it does not exclude contemporary trends. It regards the given problems through a point of view of various Christian churches as well as world religious streams. It refers to negative health consequences of miscarriage and induced abortion but in the same time it presents basic information about contraception and differentiation of contraceptive and interceptive means. The thesis also presents opinions of individual churches that express their view of contraception or interception. The author of this thesis thinks critically over these thoughts and invites readers to create their own reflection of given problems. He tries to outline a wide range of these problems in the new, wider and often ignored point of view, that is of father's view. A father is often totally ignored during an abortion though he is actually a half-donor of...
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History of ethics of dying with artworks examples accented on Christian perspectives.
Stuchlá, Vladimíra ; Pavlíková, Eva (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
The basis of this thesis is a description and an analysis of estachology within the Christian ethics during the cultural eras of past millenniums, and their comparison with the development of a recent estachology, an outline of a possible development of death's perception in future. The thesis has a character of a summarizing study from the development of an early mythic life mode, over the development of the Ancient art of living 'Ars vivendi', over the origin and development of medieval 'Ars moriendi' its decay within the onset of modern times, and the effort of modern history to develop the art of immortality until its renaissance in later modern times. The aim of this thesis is to collect, interpret, analyse and review the positive effect of Christian ethics on a post-modern human being, the effect motivating to choose quality life values, the effect helping the human being to accept calmly the mortality of him or herself and his or her relatives. Accessible materials are looked upon from the point of view of sociology, Christian ethics, and period art's creation, so the thesis presents the period's atmosphere and motives of past and recent approach of a human being to own impermanence. The supplementary part supports the thesis with the samples of approaches to dying in periodical art pieces,...
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The Human Embryo in the Perspective of Reproductive Medicine
Halabicová, Věra ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Matějek, Jaromír (referee) ; Opatrný, Dominik (referee)
Title: The Human Embryo in the Perspective of Reproductive Medicine. Since when one begins to be a human person? In this work, we take into account the issues, which in most cases lead many people to resort to the reproductive medicine, which generally is referred to as the infertility problems. But in some techniques, the reproductive medicine loses up to 80% of human embryos. In the minds of many people, the human embryo is seen only as a cluster of cells. However, is it really just a cluster of cells, or is it already a person at an early stage of development? As far as one is already man, is he now also the human being, of whom are in our Western culture related rights, especially the right to life? Could we then say with a clear conscience that with these techniques we are acting ethically? We dividend our work into six chapters. In the first and second chapter, we will be briefly acquainted with the issues of infertility, of the reproductive medicine techniques, with the development of the human embryo and with handling of the embryos in the course of these techniques. In the third charter, we will present the two major ethical models in our cultural area that have a different point of view on the status of the human embryo. In the fourth chapter, we will look at how to the question of the...
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New Testament as source of ethic inspiration in bestseller books of management
Vavřina, Jiří ; Ryšková, Mireia (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
The New Testament as a source of mediated ethical inspiration in literature management bestsellers. Contemporary management literature produced predominantly in the so-called western civilization circle, which is heavily influenced by Christianity. Work is to find and identify ethical inspiration coming mediated from the New Testament of the Bible into the centroid of managerial concepts described in three management bestsellers. As the titles were chosen Good to Great by Jim Collins, Competitive Advantage by Michael E. Porter and Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. The intention is also to achieve overlaps from selected bestseller managers into practical situations and examples that illustrate the elements of business management. The work is to find examples for explaining the positions of the authors in the light of mediated New Testament inspiration. We stand before the question of whether we can demonstrate to the attitudes of the authors the ethical significance of the concept of management and to underpin it by aligning with the ethical principles that we can guess from the interpretations of the New Testament. For selected bestseller, we try to find elements of managerial decision concepts that suggest that they are in agreement with ethical inspiration coming from the New Testament. We...
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Rerum Novarum: Main ideas in today's context
Košut, Martin ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Mašek, Vojtěch (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis "Rerum Novarum: Main ideas in today's context" is a reflection of main ideas of Leo XIII.'s encyclical Rerum Novarum, covering its biblical and patristic sources - especially in area of labour, ownership and money, their actualization in selected Magisterial texts during next decades - encyclicals of Popes Pius XI., John Paul II., Benedict XVI. and Francis, and their analysis within today's context. There are fundamental topics like relation between the private ownership and freedom and responsibility of a man, labour and capital separation with its results, labour capitalization within the family and roles of family, the Church and a state in social issues. Furthermore, the work deals with some other following ecclesiological and pastoral aspects - the impact of solving social issues on evangelization and the impact of the inability of the state to solve the social issues on the actions of the Church. Encyclical Rerum Novarum is the basis for the social doctrine of the Church, this work tries to show why this is so. Keywords Catholic Social Teaching, Wage Labour, Capital, Ownership, Money, Labour Capitalization, State, Church
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Comparison of spirituality of Francis of Assisi and John Bosco
Hájková, Eva ; Sládek, Karel (advisor) ; Ovečka, Libor (referee)
The aim of the thesis titled Comparison of the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi and John Bosco, is to find commonalities follow Jesus Christ at St. and St. John Bosco. Francis of Assisi.The work seeks to answer the question whether the charisma of John Bosco in his time, analogous to the charism of St. Francis of Assisi. If so, what particular aspect of Jesus' life is inspired and specifically how it passed on to his followers. Basic literature from which the work is based, as the memory of St. John Bosco written by him personally and his close associates, the statutes and rules of life Salesian Brothers, writings and biographies of St. Francis of Assisi, the Franciscan sources. Using the Personnel method and comparison in terms of whether there are consistent references to Holy Scripture and tradition, and specifically how at the time these links St. John Bosco and St. Francis of Assisi lived and fulfilling. The work involves the following three areas: 1) Perception vocation to follow Christ 2) The concept of poverty and Services 3) Process Services 4) Marian devotion and relationship to the Church Keywords St. Francis of Assisi, franciscan Spirituality, salesian Spirituality, John Bosco.
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