PHIL 3301 - Moral Philosophy I

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of philosophy or junior standing.
Moral philosophy is the philosophical inquiry into the fundamental principles underlying any distinctions between “right” and “wrong,” or “good” and “evil.” This course will be a comparison of the three most influential and fundamental moral philosophies in the Western tradition: Aristotle’s virtue ethics, Immanuel Kant’s deontological ethics, and John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism. Other significant pre-twentieth-century ethical thinkers may also be studied.