PHIL 420W - Ethical Theory | GEWI

A systematic study of different approaches to ethical theorizing focused primarily on the Western philosophical tradition. Specific topics may include: the objectivity, rationality, and authority of ethical norms; theories of what is good and why; accounts of moral standing; varieties of consequentialism and deontology; neo-Kantian and contractualist views; virtue theory; feminist ethics; existentialist ethics.

Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall (even yrs.)

Prerequisite(s) Two PHIL courses (100-499), excluding PHIL 120 and PHIL 130

Previously listed as PHIL 420
Updates Course Rotation added 1/2015; Writing Intensive Credit 2/2013, effective Summer 2013; New Course 1/2013, effective Summer 2013

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