If you successfully complete this course, you will be able to:
1. identify some of the basic issues in the branch of philosophy known as "ethics," or "theory of value."
2. discuss some of the typical positions taken by philosophers on these issues, and argue for and against each of these positions.
3. define and use such terms as "absolutism," "relativism," "deontologism," "utilitarianism," "metaethics, and "virtue ethics."
4. show how some of these ethical theories can be applied to contemporary problems involving value choices. |