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Telling Right from Wrong
| Course Number: | PHIL 109 |
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| Title: | Telling Right from Wrong |
| Day & Time 1: | TR 02:30PM 03:45PM |
| Instructor I: | Carlyle A |
| Credit: | 1.00 |
| Course Description: | How ought we to live our lives? How ought we to treat other people? What features of an action make it right or wrong? What are the character traits make a person good or bad? We will examine three major traditions in ethical theory: consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. And we will discuss some applied questions concerning the morality of abortion, affluence and poverty, war, pornography, climate change, and the treatment of non-human animals. We will explore questions of moral motivation. We will read primary texts. |
| Comments: | Open to First Years and Sophomores Only |
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