INTENSIVE SEMINAR: ETHICS 1

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Subtitle	Moral Theory 1
Lecturer(s)	ERTL, WOLFGANG
Credit(s)	1
Academic Year/Semester	2024 Spring
Day/Period	Thu.5
Campus	Mita
Class Format	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
Registration Number	00487
Faculty/Graduate School	LETTERS
Department/Major	HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCEETHICS
Year Level	2, 3, 4
Field	SPECIALIZED SUBJECTS
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Course Description	This is a compulsory course for third-year students with the main aim of guiding them in writing their graduation theses. The course aims to enable students to select according to their own interests questions to be considered about how man should live and a society should be and to give coherent answers to them.
K-Number	FLT-ET-35101-312-01

Course Administrator	Faculty/Graduate School	FLT	LETTERS
Course Administrator	Department/Major	ET	HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCEETHICS
Main Course Number	Level	3	Third-year level coursework
	Major Classification	5	Specialist Education Investigative/Practical Course
	Minor Classification	10	Common to All Ethics Majors - Ethics Seminar
	Subject Type	1	Required subject
Supplemental Course Information	Class Classification	3	Seminar
	Class Format	1	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
	Language of Instruction	2	English
Academic Discipline		01	Philosophy, art, and related fields

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A moral theory has the task of explaining why certain norms regarding our actions are valid. Most people agree, for example, that it is morally wrong to lie. There is, however, strong disagreement as to why it is wrong. The aim of this course is to give an overview of the most important moral theories, such as divine command theory, natural law theory, and moral relativism.

From time to time, we will also discuss ethical questions emerging in literature and film. I therefore suggest that everybody reads Ivan Turgenev's novel "Fathers and Sons" ("Fathers and Children" in the Russian original) and watches Billy Wilder's movie "Double Indemnity".

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Timmons, Mark: Moral Theory. An Introduction. 3rd Edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield 2022.

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