PHIL333

This course will be a study in ethics. Ethics concerns how humans ought to live and the kinds of people they ought to try to be. This class will have a dual focus on theories of ethics as well as on applied problems in today's multicultural world: world poverty, war, race and sexuality, among other topics. Our philosophical readings will include classic texts (e.g., Plato, Kant, and Mill) as well as recent texts (e.g., Martin Luther King, Carol Gilligan, and Peter Singer).