This course is an introduction to moral philosophy and is intended for the student who has had little or no prior exposure to philosophy. It will provide a broad but reasonably detailed examination of the central issues of moral philosophy and will also consider how these can be applied to several contemporary moral problems.
Main topics will be covered as follows:
- Introduction to ethics
- Cognitivism/Relativism: Ethical Subjectivism and Cultural Relativism
- Non-Cognitivism: Emotivism and Prescriptivism
- Consequentialism (Teleology): Utilitarianism and Egoism
- Deontic Ethics (Deontology)
- Virtue Ethics
- Applied ethics: Abortion, Altering genes and cloning humans, Capital punishment, Same sex marriage, Environmental ethics, Animal rights, Business ethics.
- Course creator: Ngoc Nguyen Bich