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Course Description
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Course Name
Moral Theory
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Host University
University of Stirling
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Location
Stirling, Scotland
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Area of Study
Philosophy
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Language Level
Taught In English
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SCQF Credits
20 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits5
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Recommended U.S. Quarter Units7
Hours & Credits
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Overview
This course is an introduction to the philosophical investigation of morality, which concentrates on normativeethics. Normative ethical theories are concerned with standards we can use to evaluate actions, people, andstates of affairs, from the moral point of view. Such theories attempt to specify and justify some ultimatestandard or principle of evaluation; they attempt to answer, in a rigorous and systematic way, questionsregarding what it is for an action to be right or wrong, a person good or evil, a state of affairs better or worse.We will focus on understanding and evaluating the three major moral theories: consequentialism, Kantiandeontology, and virtue ethics.
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