This will be a seminar on classic and contemporary work on central topics in ethics. The first third of the course will focus on metaethics
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694 years, 4 months
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25
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we will examine the meaning of moral claims and ask whether there is any sense in which moral principles are objectively valid. The second third of the course will focus on normative ethics: what makes our lives worth living, what makes our actions right or wrong, and what do we owe to others? The final third of the course will focus on moral character: what is virtue, and how important is it? Can we be held responsible for what we do? When and why?
Course Currilcum
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- Plato’s dialogue and the “Euthyphro Problem” Unlimited
- Moore on goodness as simple and indefinable Unlimited
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- Ayer on the emotive theory of ethics Unlimited
- Brink on the form and content of moral judgments Unlimited
- Harman on ethics and observation Unlimited
- Sturgeon on moral explanations Unlimited
- Mill on utilitarianism Unlimited
- Nozick and Parfit on theories of well-being Unlimited
- Norcross on comparing harms Unlimited
- Rawls and Nagel on equality Unlimited
- Williams on the idea of equality Unlimited
- Singer on famine, affluence, and morality Unlimited
- van Inwagen on the incompatibility of free will and determinism Unlimited
- Frankfurt on moral responsibility Unlimited
- Nagel on moral luck Unlimited
