| CODE | PHI1102 | ||||||
| TITLE | Ethics 1 and 2 | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Philosophy | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Ethics I (1) The 'objectivist', 'subjectivist' and 'functionalist' meaning of 'good' in a moral context; (2) What is man for? Does birth and death reveal what is man's purpose?; (3) Is happiness the fulfilment of love, fidelity to [universal] law, or the maximization of communication?; (4) The meaning of virtuous life and happiness; (5) The relation of desire, reason and choice; (6) Practical reason and intentionality; (7) Freedom, determinism and moral responsibility. Ethics II A discussion of the ethical theories of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, Utilitarians, Emmanuel Levinas and A.N. Whitehead. Reading List - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics - Hudson, W.D., Modern Moral Philosophy, Macmillan, London, 1983 - Taylor, C., The Explanation of Behaviour, Routledge & Kegan, London, 1968 - Von Wright, G, H., Varieties of Goodness, Routledge & Kegan, London, 1963 - Warnock, G.J., Contemporary Moral Philosophy, St Martin Press, New York, 1967 - Aquinas, Th., Summa Theologica, I-II, q.1-21 - Bentham, J., Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Kant, I., Critique of Practical Reason and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Levinas, E., Totality and Infinity - Mill, J.S., Utilitarianism - Whitehead, A.N., Process and Reality |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Emmanuel Agius |
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