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Ethical Theory

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
MoWeFr 11a.m. – 11:50a.m.
Wheatley W01-0009 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
MoWeFr 11a.m. – 11:50a.m.
Location
Wheatley W01-0009
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

A study of some of the major contemporary approaches to issues of right and wrong, good and bad, and good character: utilitarianism, deontology, the ethics of care, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, and issues of current importance in ethics-relativism, moral excellence, gender differences in morality. A systematic rather than historical approach.

Prerequisites

Any Philosophy course

This course is closed for registration.

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