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Spring 2020 | PHIL 1003W Section 001: Introduction to Ethics (55417)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed,
Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-109
- Enrollment Status:
Open (56 of 58 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Are values/principles relative to our culture? Is pleasure valuable? Are there any absolute rules? These questions and others are addressed through critical study of moral theories.
- Class Description:
- "What kind of life should I live?" "What kind of person do I want to be?" Such questions confront us all and do so perhaps most urgently during the college years, when we typically choose or prepare for the life we wish to live. These questions also are of concern to the moral philosopher. Moral philosophers engaged in the systematic study of the ethical standards that should govern our lives and their sources of justification are engaged in the project of 'normative ethics'. Sometimes we might find ourselves wondering about more abstract questions, such as whether moral judgments are objective, whether moral principles are relative to our culture, where values fit into the scientific world of facts, etc. These are among the questions that are the subject of 'meta-ethics'. In this course we will join some prominent moral philosophers in reflecting on both normative and meta-ethical questions. We will examine the most influential normative ethical theories: Utilitarianism, Kantianism and neo-Aristotelianism. We also will consider philosophy's contribution to thinking about some contemporary moral controversies (e.g., is affirmative action fair?). The goals of the course are to provide students with no previous background in philosophy with an introduction to philosophical ethics and to equip them to critically read, assess, and write philosophical prose.
- Grading:
- 30% Final Exam
60% Reports/Papers
10% Quizzes
- Class Format:
- 75% Lecture
25% Discussion
- Workload:
- 15-21 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55417/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 May 2015
Spring 2020 | PHIL 1003W Section 002: Introduction to Ethics (65451)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 330
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (33 of 32 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Are values/principles relative to our culture? Is pleasure valuable? Are there any absolute rules? These questions and others are addressed through critical study of moral theories.
- Class Description:
- This is a required discussion section to be taken in conjunction with PHIL1003W. See the course information for PHIL1003W section 001.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65451/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 May 2015
Spring 2020 | PHIL 1003W Section 003: Introduction to Ethics (65452)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Are values/principles relative to our culture? Is pleasure valuable? Are there any absolute rules? These questions and others are addressed through critical study of moral theories.
- Class Description:
- This is a required discussion section to be taken in conjunction with PHIL1003W. See the course information for PHIL1003W section 001.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65452/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 May 2015
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