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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

PHIL121 HM - Ethical Theory


Credit(s): 3

Instructor(s): Wright

Description: A survey of contemporary philosophical thinking about morality, emphasizing how metaethical inquiry into the nature of “goodness,” “virtue” and “moral obligation” can inform normative inquiry into what is good and how to live. Attention is given throughout the course to the application of particular normative theories to personal decision-making and to contemporary social and political questions.

HSA Course Area(s): Philosophy
HSA Writing Intensive: No