Christian Social Ethics : politics and economics questions II [ LTHEO2262 ]
4.0 crédits ECTS
30.0 h
1q
This biannual course is taught on years 2014-2015, 2016-2017, ...
| Teacher(s) |
Lesch Walter ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
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Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
In order to reach these goals,
the course offers an analysis of a specific question, one time in the political field and the next time in the economical field.
Important current files will be objects of research that need to use the tools of current ethics in connection with philosophy and social sciences
The course will show some specificities of a Christian look aware of the plurality of approach.
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| Aims |
By the end of the course, the student should be able :
- to clarify fundamental categories for ethical thought in the context of important questions about society
- to relate the contributions of Christian traditions to public debates on social bound
- to analyse the issues about the social involvements of Christians in dialogue with other convictions.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and
command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be
accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled
“Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
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| Content |
2014-2015
Ethics of financial markets
The crisis of international financial markets implies severe dysfunctions of the economic system and destabilises political and societal structures. The purpose of economic ethics is to suggest a reconstruction of some fundamental concepts: money, credit, speculation, trust, etc. There will an ethical analysis of models of socially responsible finance and of the role of religious traditions in practices linked to economy.
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Faculty or entity
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