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Course Syllabus
Philosophy
302: Ethics
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Description Textbooks John Hospers, Human Conduct: Problems of Ethics (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995). Another text of your choice--for suggestions, see the selected bibliography.
The class essentially centers around three topics:
(1) What is the nature of the life of excellence? (2) What is the ultimate worth of the goals you seek? (3) How do you rightly obtain your life goals? Although these questions are simply stated, they
prove to be most difficult to clarify.
The objective of the course is for you to establish some good
answers to these questions in light of a critical analysis of several
theories of ethics including those of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill,
Epicureanism, Stoicism, utilitarianism, and egoism.
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