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| Section II. DISCIPLINARY STUDIES - HUMANITIES | ||
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| 1. | COURSE NUMBER: PHIL 104 | SEMESTER HOURS: 3 |
| COURSE TITLE: Ethics | ||
| 2. | COURSE FORMAT: Lecture (faculty) with discussion sections (graduate assistant). Average lecture size: 200. | |
| 3. | COURSE OBJECTIVES: To introduce students to a variety of ethical perspectives (for example: hedonistic, teleological, deontological) and how these perspectives address issues such as war, civil disobedience, the good life, and moral obligations. | |
| 4. | DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION: Ethics deals with the fundamental questions that arise from an attempt to understand our moral experiences. These questions include: Are there universal standards for judging moral actions or situations? What are the comparative merits of pleasure, duty, self-fulfillment, et al, as guides for the appraisal process? Do humans have responsibilities in relation to nature? What is it about persons that serves as the basis for ascribing to them moral value? Broadly conceived, ethics deals also with troublesome questions that are the offspring of recent developments in medicine, new emphases in business, and new or related social policy issues. Course units: Classical Theories; Modern Theories; Contemporary Issues; Non-Western Perspectives. | |
| 5. | REQUIRED READING: Howie, Perspectives for Moral Decisions; Cahn, Classics of Western Philosophy; Clarke, Introduction to Moral Reasoning; Kessler, Voices of Wisdom. | |
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING: - Exams, papers and class participation. The course will emphasize reading, writing and critical thinking skills. |
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| 7. | SUBSTITUTIONS: PHIL 340. | 3/97 |
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