WREL 2039 RELIGION, REASON, AND ETHICS
The course will provide an introduction to those concerns of religion and philosophy that are problems of ethics and morality. The class will begin by examining ethical theories ( subjectivism, relativism, utilitarianism, and deontological, to name a few) within religion and philosophy through various examples of classical and contemporary literature. In studying these historically important and prominent theoretical approaches to ethics that purport to provide systematic procedures for addressing questions about right and wrong, values, purpose and meaning, the class will consider applied ethics some concrete moral issues of the day: abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, other sentient beings, the environment, and the work-place. We will seek to improve our thinking about the considerations that may count as reasons for and against the moral judgments we are tempted to make.
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