Winter Session Courses

Online Instructor: Gloria Sanso
Online Class #10094

Is ethics objective or relative? What is the best way to assess the morality of an action or a person? What kind of person should we strive to be? This course introduces the ongoing discussion of the nature of morality, what might be the best criteria for assessing right and wrong, and what factors are relevant in difficult ethical situations. The course is structured in two parts. The first part discusses what morality is and surveys the most influential ethical theories: consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics, natural law theory, and ethics of care. The second part applies what we learned to problems of economic justice.