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Spring 2020 | PHIL 8310 Section 001: Seminar: Moral Philosophy (65730)
- 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 731
- Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Concepts/problems relating to ethical discourse. prereq: 4310 or 4320 or 4330 or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- New Research on Well-Being and Ill-Being What is it for life to go well? Is it to experience more pleasure than pain? To get everything you've always wanted? To develop into a virtuous human being? And what is it for life to go badly? Is there a zero point for happiness, below which a person is better off dead? This seminar investigates these questions as taken up in new philosophical research on well-being and ill-being. We'll start with a brief history of the field, and turn quickly to the latest debates. Some of these debates are quite abstract and may appear disconnected from the big questions, but we'll try to keep an eye on the big questions throughout. We will also read some work by psychologists on happiness and well-being.
- Class Description:
- Practical Wisdom Practical wisdom is an important virtue that has received little philosophical attention in recent years. The course will explore relevant literature in virtue ethics, meta-ethics, virtue epistemology and moral psychology.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65730/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 20 May 2010
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