PHIL 2523: Ethics

Subject
Credit Hours 3.0 Lecture Hours 3.0 Lab Hours 0.0
Type of Credit
Baccalaureate/Transfer
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Course Description
An evaluation of competing philosophical justifications of moral responsibility. Issues such as obligation, praise and blame, right and wrong, goodness and badness will likely be examined. IAI: H4 904.
Prerequisite(s)
Appropriate assessment score or ENGL 1422 with a grade of C or better - Must be taken either prior to or at the same time as this course.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify a variety of ethical theories and apply these ethical theories.
  • Identify the authors of ethical theories and their ethical theories in a comprehensive manner.
  • Expound on particular ethical points, which you will examine, analyze, comprehend, criticize and interpret.
  • Define pertinent ethical terminology, which will enable you to converse and dialog with others in the arena of human ethics.
  • Analyze in some depth at least six ethical theories.
  • Analyze decision making by using particular moral theories.
  • Analyze how ethics affects our personal, professional, societal, and political lives.
  • Assess various methods of moral decision-making.
  • Compare and contrast ethical theories in writing.