PHIL 104

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Intro to Ethics-ACP

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Credit: 3 hours.

Some basic questions of ethics, discussed in the light of influential ethical theories and with reference to specific moral problems, such as: What makes an action morally right? Are moral standards absolute or relative? What is relation between personal morality and social morality, and between social morality and law? Course is identical to PHIL 105 except for the additional writing component.

Credit is not given for both PHIL 104 and either PHIL 105 or PHIL 106. Prerequisite: Completion of campus Composition I general education requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Advanced Composition

Humanities – Hist & Phil

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PHIL 104 class schedule data for spring 2019
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
43084	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	217 Gregory Hall	Sachdev, M Sussman, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Hist & Phil course.
43088	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	327 Gregory Hall	Sachdev, M Sussman, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Hist & Phil course.
43090	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	331 Gregory Hall	Rokosz, S Sussman, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Hist & Phil course.
43092	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	331 Gregory Hall	Rokosz, S Sussman, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Hist & Phil course.
41132	Lecture	AL1	1:00PM -1:50PM	MW	160 English Building	Sussman, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition, and Humanities - Hist & Phil course. Section Info: This course will consider some basic questions about the nature of morality and the place that moral concerns should have in our lives. We will see if there is any fundamental principle that explains why an act is morally right or wrong, and whether any such principle can really have the authority that morality claims. Is morality only concerned with promoting happiness and preventing misery, or might there be acts that are right or wrong regardless of their consequences? Is there any important difference between doing something bad and merely allowing it to happen? Must an immoral person be ignorant, short-sighted, or irrational in any significant way? We will also look at more specific problems raised by such issues as abortion, the treatment of animals, global poverty, having children, and torture. Readings from contemporary and historical sources.