Overview
Description
Issues concerning happiness and morality, e.g., friendship, pleasure, virtue, body vs. soul, individual vs. society, nonconformity, constraints on pursuit of good, moral conflict, beyond morality.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Core
CO12
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a problem in moral philosophy, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
- interpret at an introductory level the ideas associated with some major ethical theories, and analyze the issues and controversies to which they give rise.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize relevant logical relationships and patterns of inference (in philosophical texts concerned with ethics).
- show what is at stake in an abstract debate in moral philosophy, and indicate how different ethical principles have different practical implications.