PHIL 135 - Introduction to Ethics

(3 units) CO12

Issues concerning happiness and morality, e.g., friendship, pleasure, virtue, body vs. soul, individual vs. society, nonconformity, constraints on pursuit of good, moral conflict, beyond morality.

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 in moral philosophy, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
2. interpret at an introductory level the ideas associated with some major ethical theories, and analyze the issues and controversies to which they give rise.
3. distinguish better and worse reasoning, and recognize relevant logical relationships and patterns of inference (in philosophical texts concerned with ethics).
4. 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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