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PHIL122 HM - Ethics: Ancient and Modern

Credit(s): 3

Instructor(s): Wright

Description: A comparative study of ethical theories from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Roman philosophy and from modern European and Africana philosophy.  Figures studied may include Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Mozi, Mengzi, Epictetus, Zera Yacob, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and/or others.  The course emphasizes ways in which philosophical accounts of the nature of goodness, obligation, and virtue shape conceptions of the ethical person and the ethical life.

HSA Course Area(s): Philosophy
HSA Writing Intensive: Yes