PHI 145 - Introduction to Ethical Conflicts
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course explores contemporary ethical conflicts as a way to develop critical thinking skills. Students will examine various moral theories and their application to ethical problem-solving by the use of case studies. Students will determine principles upon which to base their ethical decision making. The concepts covered in this course are valuable for careers that require critical thinking, consideration of ethics and ethical conflicts, and understanding the perspectives of others.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: virtual and/or online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- The student will analyze numerous ethical theories.
- The student will analyze ethical decision-making by using a case study approach.
- The student will examine how ethics affect us personally and socially.
- The student will apply various methods of moral decision-making and justify decisions made.
- The student will explain an ethical issue in writing.
Course Objectives:
Unit 1: Ethics and Morality
- Define ethics and other related terms important to the study of ethics.
- Examine the four major approaches to morality.
- Identify propositions and state of affairs.
- Compare absolute and relative approaches to morality.
Unit 2: Consequential, Non- Consequential, and Virtue Ethics Theories
- Explain consequential, non-consequential, and virtue theories of ethical decision-making including:
- Ethical Egoism
- Utilitarianism
- Divine Command
- Kantian Ethics
- Ross’s Prima Facie Duties
- Natural Law
- Care Ethics
- Aristotle’s Nichomachean ethics
- Confucian analects
- Differentiate between act and rule theories of ethical decision-making.
- Analyze and apply ethical theories in relation to specific case study scenarios.
Unit 3: Freedom vs. Determinism
- Define and discuss freedom in terms of ethics.
- Explain and discuss determinism theories.
- Religious determinism
- Scientific determinism
- Fatalism
- Hard determinism
- Soft determinism
- Define and discuss existentialism.
- Analyze and apply theories of determinism to specific case study scenarios.
Unit 4: Reward and Punishment
- Define and discuss reward needs and theories.
- Define and discuss punishment needs and theories.
- Define and discuss justice in terms of ethics.
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