PHI 1600 Ethics
This course is an introduction to philosophical thinking about morals. The course will examine a series of important texts in the history of philosophical ethics, representative of various ethical approaches. The student will be encouraged to employ the various philosophical (utilitarian and deontological) approaches to moral questions. Students are encouraged to apply ethical reasoning to moral dilemmas in various professional and personal areas and to engage in philosophical thinking about morality at least to the extent of comparing their own moral intuitions or beliefs against the major philosophical trends examined in this course. Students are also to gain some understanding of the methods and procedures of philosophy. This is a humanities distribution course (3 hrs. Lect.)
Distribution
HLA