2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHL 215 - Matters of Life and Death


This course examines some of the major themes and problems of moral philosophy with special emphasis on matters of life and death.  The nature of moral reasoning, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and deontology as they have been displayed in some of the most important texts of the moral tradition will be studied and applied to contemporary problems in the areas of bioethics and mortality.  Examples of such problems are the moral status of abortion, euthanasia, genetic modification, capital punishment, torture, terrorism, and war.  The course also considers the question of what makes a life good and meaningful as well as the proper attitude towards the inevitability of death.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Fall Semester