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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog This is not the most recent catalog version; be sure you are viewing the appropriate catalog year.
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PHIL 520 Ethical Theory
A systematic study of different approaches to ethical theorizing focused primarily on 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.
Often cross-listed with PHIL 420W
Credit 3 hrs
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Once every two years (in-person/hybrid, occasionally online)
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Change to course rotation 3/2019, effective Fall 2019; New Course 7/2013, effective Fall 2013
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