Introduction to Ethics

(3-5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will outline some of the major ethical views relevant to the question: What does it mean to do good? It will do so in philosophical and historical terms. It will also consider the major positions inherited from the tradition of reflection on the good, from antiquity to the contemporary world. It will consider some of the essential themes of ethical reflection, such as the nature of virtue and duty, the question of justice and the good society, and the relation of ethics and religion.