Philosophy
Ethics
Module code: V7077
Level 6
30 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Seminar, Lecture
Assessment modes: Essay
You look at the central questions in normative ethics and meta-ethics.
These include:
- what makes an action right
- whether there are moral rules
- whether there are moral facts, and if so, how they can be known
- whether there are external moral reasons
- whether there’s a relation between moral truths and non-moral truths.
Positions to be examined include non-cognitivism, naturalism, non-naturalism, internalism and externalism.
Module learning outcomes
- Present a coherent and detailed understanding of the key issues in ethical philosophy.
- Analyse key arguments offered in the central areas of ethical philosophy.
- Analyse key concepts such as 'moral truth', 'moral fact', 'moral motivation' and 'moral reason'.
- Present and defend some independent views with regard to the issues.