Politics, Morality Policy

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Americans disagree about guns, taxes, welfare, immigration, affirmative action, health care, foreign policy, the environment, and virtually every other political issue one can imagine. In this course, we examine these disagreements from moral and political perspectives to better understand why we have adopted the policies we have, while rejecting alternatives. From the moral position, we seek to discern the philosophical rationales for supporting or opposing various policy options. Politically, we strive to learn how political actors attempt to turn their philosophical preferences into actual policies.