Overview
Description
Branch of ethics that concerns morality. Topics include: maximizing good, constraints on the pursuit of good, self versus society, rules versus judgment, moral conflict, beyond morality.
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a problem in ethical theory, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
- explain and interpret the ideas associated with theories of ethics in contemporary philosophical literature.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize relevant logical relationships and patterns of inference (in contemporary theories of ethics).
- show what is at stake in abstract debates in philosophical ethics, and indicate how positions in these debates has implications for the practice of moral agents and, where relevant, other areas of philosophical inquiry.