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Moral Philosophy, also known as Ethics, is the philosophical study of how to live. Participants in this course will explore answers to such questions as what is good and what we ought to do. These answers might help us to decide what to do in particular practical situations or help us to better understand what we already think we ought to do in such situations. But even if there are no “objective” answers, as some students tend to find themselves thinking, we cannot escape theorizing about ethics, because the very idea that there are no answers to ethical questions, is itself an idea in metaethics, which is itself a branch of ethics. So, participants in this course will also explore questions concerning the nature of ethics – whether there are any ethical facts and if so, whether they are relative or absolute; whether ethical facts are located in the natural world; whether and how science and experience can reveal them to us. This course will be a seminar taught in English. Close engagement of the assigned texts will be expected from students, along with regular participation in class. |
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B.A. LA GyGe: M6, M11: SE Praktische Philosophie
B.A. (ab WS 2012/13): M6, M11: SE Praktische Philosophie
M.A. (ab WS 2012/13): M Ic, IIc, IIIc: Moralphilosophie, Angewandte Ethik, Politische Philosophie |
