This course introduces a systematic framework for thinking about ethical dilemmas that arise in personal, professional and civic life. It will review theoretical, biological and socio-cultural conceptions of moral obligation, as well as relevant socio- historical, cultural and scientific contexts. The course will enhance your ability to recognize the complex interplay between moral concepts and lived experience and to resolve moral dilemmas.
By the end of the course the students will learn to:1) Analyze and construct philosophically respectable arguments;2) appreciate the relationship between ethics and the natural and social sciences;3) distinguish normative from factual claims;4) distinguish moral, social and scientific evidence & justification;5) Correlate moral concepts and lived (personal, social, biological) experience; and resolve moral dilemmas.
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