Course Description
Course Name
Moral Theory
Session: VSRS3122
Hours & Credits
20 SCQF Credits
Prerequisites & Language Level
Taught In English
- There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.
Overview
This course is an introduction to the philosophical investigation of morality, which concentrates on normative
ethics. Normative ethical theories are concerned with standards we can use to evaluate actions, people, and
states of affairs, from the moral point of view. Such theories attempt to specify and justify some ultimate
standard or principle of evaluation; they attempt to answer, in a rigorous and systematic way, questions
regarding what it is for an action to be right or wrong, a person good or evil, a state of affairs better or worse.
We will focus on understanding and evaluating the three major moral theories: consequentialism, Kantian
deontology, and virtue ethics.
*Course content subject to change