PHIL 8310 is also offered in Spring 2024
PHIL 8310 is also offered in Spring 2023
Fall 2018 | PHIL 8310 Section 001: Seminar: Moral Philosophy (32349)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Walter W Heller Hall 830
- Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 16 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Concepts/problems relating to ethical discourse. prereq: 4310 or 4320 or 4330 or instr consent
- Class Description:
- The topic of my spring seminar in moral philosophy (Phil 8310) will be Kant and Kantians. We'll understand moral philosophy broadly -- so issues of justice will be part of our discussion as well. In Kant's own work, we'll read parts of the "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals" and of the "Metaphysics of Morals." We will also consider "Perpetual Peace." As for contemporarly Kantians, our list will include a variety, e.g., Onora O'Neill, Barbara Herman, Christine Korsgaard, Tom Hill, Arthur Ripstein, Marcia Baron. In addition to analyzing texts and arguments, we will spend time talking/thinking about how Kantians approach (or what a Kantian can/should say about) various practical questions. Among these are, e.g., punishment, public education, immigration, and the moral status of natural environments. I'm in the midst of a book (developing a Kant-based account of justice), and these are among the topics I'm working on at the moment.
- Grading:
- 90% Reports/Papers
10% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
80% Discussion
- Workload:
- 25-50 Pages Reading Per Week
25 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32349/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 November 2009
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