PHIL 160 - Ethics

3 humanities credits

This course explores moral philosophy through the writings of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Benthan and Mill, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, James and Dewey, and Rawls. Through these readings students are introduced to the major ethical theories of eontology, consequentialism and relativism and come to understand how they may be compatible and in what areas they seem to be in opposition. The ethical ideas studied in the first half of the semester are then applied to a variety of contemporary conflicts.Class Hours: 3