PHIL 350

PHIL 350 B1: Foundations of Ethics
Instructor: Howard Nye

Course Description:

Are there objective ethical truths? Why should we care about morality? What ultimately is it for an act to be reasonable, virtuous, or morally right? In this course we will explore these most fundamental questions about ethics. We will examine various theories of what we are doing when we make ethical claims, whether there are objective ethical facts, and what sorts of facts these could be. We will also explore the most promising accounts of why we should be moral, and what most fundamentally determines which outcomes are good, what character traits are virtuous, and what we owe to others.