PHIL 2100 - Contemporary Moral Issues

4 Semester Hours
An introduction to moral philosophy, including topics such as metaethics (the definition of good; evil, the source of morality, morality, morality’s relationship to religion; biology, the proper goals of human life), ethical theory (the importance of consequences versus duties, virtue versus right; wrong, the ethical theories of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Mill, Kant, Nietzsche, feminists, evolutionists),; applied ethics (abortion, euthanasia, death penalty, privacy rights, biotechnology, gay rights, animal rights, racism, sexism, multiculturalism, military policy,and others)