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Chrysippus and Augustine on suicide
Golatová, Hana ; Chavalka, Jakub (advisor) ; Šenovský, Jakub (referee)
The thesis deals with suicide and topics related to it in the concept of Chrysippus of Soloi and St. Augustine. Despite the differences in their conclusions, both discuss this phenomenon in connection withdissatisfaction with life. They are based on the assumption of the initial inadequacy of human nature and the possibility of attaining happiness through its perfection. Chrysippus believes that under certain conditions suicide can become a reasonable act. The development of rationality allows one to see events from a universal perspective and to free oneself from dependence on external objects that produce passions including adherence to life. The decision to voluntarily end one's life is based on an insight into the course of nature and what is natural to man. Thanks to this knowledge, suicide becomes a virtuous act and a manifestation of harmony with nature. For Augustine, on the other hand, suicide isan expression of human weakness, an inability to cope with the miseries of life and a cowardly escape from suffering. However, he considers suffering to be an integral part of life, hiding in itself the possibility of moral remedy. Suicide manifests human egoism, which is the cause of the original sin, the degradation of the human nature and an barrier on the road to happiness and salvation.
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Ethical aspects and possible social effects of free childlessness
Haškovcová, Eva ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Štica, Petr (referee)
This thesis maps Czech social and expert discussions on the theme of child-free people childnessness. It is directed on those aspect with implicit ethical content. Subsequently it chooses the most often argument, what are discussed in the ethical reflection. To be child-free is more and more becoming phenomenon, in the Czech Republic especially in the last thirty years. In spite of that it is considered to be rather as alternative life style, what is often exposed to moral evaluation, with mostly negative tone. The criticism of the child-free people can be sumarized into two main streams, when the first one directs on the social impact of the declining birth rates, the second one focuses on personal features of the child-free people, to whom it reprehends either defective hierarchy of values or unnaturalness of their behavior. These two groups of arguments are confronted with the philosophical concept of inclinationes naturales (natural tendencies) of Thomas Aquinas.
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Are students of the Faculty of Economics more rationally selfish than other students of the University of Economics?
Bui Dang Manh, Hoang ; Komrska, Martin (advisor) ; Brožová, Dagmar (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the question whether students of the Faculty of Economics are more rationally selfish than students of other faculties of the University of Economics. The specific research method that was used is the ultimatum game with the dictator game as a supplement. I applied regression and descriptive analysis to my dataset. According to the overall results, one could deduce that students of the Faculty of Economics are indeed different; however, these results are not significant enough to confirm the selfish-tendency hypothesis. Egalitarians who divided the 200 Czech crowns stake equally were the most frequent group among the 160 participants of the experiment. Results of the comparison between undergraduate and graduate students of the Faculty of Economics also imply that the self-selection hypothesis can be considered more relevant than the learning hypothesis in this case.
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