PHL 2080 - Approaches to Ethics

Credits: 4

How can we determine what is ethically right and what is ethically wrong? Is what is right or wrong determined solely by the consequences of our actions? Or do our motives and intentions also matter? Which traits make someone a good person and which traits make someone a bad person? What kind of life should we strive to live if we want to be good? Do we need to try to think rationally in order to make the right ethical choices? And can we also be guided by our feelings and emotions? Can we know for sure that any particular choice is the ethically right one? This course explores responses to these questions from a variety of different philosophical approaches and thinkers. Area Requirement for Philosophy: Ethics
Prerequisite(s): Any 1000 level course in Philosophy
Fulfills: E in LS Core