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Dec 26, 2024
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PHIL 454 - Global Ethics and Justice (3 units) CO11, CO12
Political, economic, and cultural justice and ethical issues in the context of globalization, e.g. humanitarian interventions, human rights, multiculturalism, environmental ethics from a global perspective.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credits of philosophy.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. state a thesis about a problem related to global ethics and justice, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
2. explain how local practices or particularized moral commitments may or may not be affected by less local or less particularized concerns (e.g., the claims of distant people).
3. interpret the ideas associated with theories of global ethics and justice in the contemporary philosophical literature.
4. distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize relevant logical relationships and patterns of inference (in contemporary theories of global ethics and justice).
5. show what is at stake in abstract philosophical debates in global ethics and justice, and indicate how positions in these debates have implications for the conduct of individuals and states in an increasingly globalized world.
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