PHIL 760.001 – Advanced Studies in Moral Theory
Instructors: Susan Wolf and Douglas MacLean. This course meets R 4:00 – 6:30 p.m. via remote synchronous (RS) instruction.
This course will be a graduate level version of an Introduction to Moral Theory course. We will read several canonical texts – Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, selections from Hobbes’s Leviathan, Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Mill’s Utilitarianism and some 20th century work, if time allows – as a way to think about such basic questions of moral theory as What does it mean for something to be morally right (wrong)? What (if anything) gives us reason to be moral? How do the major moral theories relate to each other?
PHIL graduate students: Please refer to our Handbook (page 6, #9) for information regarding distribution requirements.
Permission of the instructor is required to enroll in this course. PHIL grad students are exempt from this enrollment requirement.