Open Educational Resources
Document Type
Syllabus
Publication Date
Fall 2025
Abstract
An ethical situation or an ethical aspect to something involves human harm or well-being or life or death. Human well-being and life are universally considered important and valuable. This course will present classical ethics writings in Philosophy, contemporary moral/ethical topics, and tools for reading, thinking, speaking, and writing about ethics. In order to apply ethics to current issues, we need to know what Philosophy has contributed to ethical/moral thinking. This course develops that knowledge. Included are: philosophical moral systems of virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism and existentialism. Contemporary issues include animal rights, the life of the mind in college, upward social class mobility, and disasters on campus.
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This OER was created under the CUNY/SUNY Scale Up Initiative grant, 2024-2025, sponsored by the CUNY Office of Library Services.