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PHIL 210 - World Religions

(3 units) CO10, CO11
Main moral and religious doctrines of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

Units of Lecture: 3
Core Status: Diversity, CO10, CO11
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to state a thesis about a problem in moral philosophy, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
2. Students will be able to explain and interpret the ideas associated with some major ethical theories, and analyze the issues and controversies to which they give rise.
3. Students will be able to distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize relevant logical relationships and patterns of inference (in philosophical texts concerned with ethics).
4. Students will be able to show what is at stake in an abstract debate in moral philosophy, and indicate how different ethical principles have different practical implications.


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