If you are looking for an engaging course to fulfill the Humanities requirement for your core curriculum, look no further than Introduction to Ethics (PHIL 2320). You will get the opportunity to study the three main philosophical systems historically and through the lens of contemporary issues. See below for a more detailed description of the course:
“Contemporary ethics is dominated by three systems (virtue ethics, utilitarianism, deontology) proposed by three great philosophers (Aristotle, Mill, Kant). Students in this course will come to understand these three moral systems. Students will be able to compare and contrast these three moral systems, weighing their strengths and weakness. Students will also apply each of these three moral systems to two contemporary moral problems (economic justice and abortion). Overall, students in this course will learn to reason and write more clearly about three moral systems and two moral problems.”
Here is a matrix of what will be studied week by week:
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PROBLEM SOLVERS |
MORAL PROBLEMS |
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Abortion |
Justice |
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Aristotle |
Virtue Ethics weeks 2 & 3 |
week 4 |
week 5 |
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Moses and Jesus |
Transition: Bible Ethics week 6 |
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John Stuart Mill |
Utilitarianism week 7 |
week 8 |
week 9 & 10 |
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Immanual Kant |
Deontology weeks 11 & 12 |
week 13 |
week 14 |
