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Elements Of Ethics

Key information

  • Module code:

    4AAT1027

  • Level:

    4

  • Semester:

      Autumn

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

Through lectures and discussion, students will be introduced to the key concepts in philosophical ethics.  Lectures will devote a substantial amount of time to the direct reading of and commentary on the key text in moral philosophy. The interactive nature of this method of teaching will require a flexible approach to the amount of material covered in any single lecture.

 

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Assessment details

One 90 mins exam (100%)

Educational aims & objectives

The aim of this module is to offer a level 4 introductory module in key themes in moral philosophy for first year students in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Through the study of a single text across the term – Mary Midgley’s Can’t We Make Moral Judgements? - students will be introduced to key concepts in philosophical ethics concerning the objectivity and subjectivity of moral values, relativism, the social sources of morality and the like. Supplementary readings will be suggested throughout. 

Teaching pattern

1x one-hour lecture and 1x one hour seminar weekly for ten weeks.

Department

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