Moral Philosophy

(2.5-5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

In ethics we examine critically the following questions: How do we define membership of a moral community? What is required to ensure `the good life?, `well-being? or `happiness? for myself and society? What principles, rights & duties are necessary to protect society and the environment? What competencies and personal qualities do we need to act as responsible moral agents? The unit explores the issues of subjective and objective values, relativism and absolutism, and the role of pleasure and pain in determining moral choices, concepts such as conscience, rights and duties, the moral law, the nature of moral reasoning and the status of moral truth. We survey the ethical tradition of both secular and religious thinkers from Classical Greece to the Modern day.