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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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PHIL 263 - Ethics of Good Life and Character Building When Offered: F, S, SS
3 Credit(s) 3 Lecture Hour(s) 0 Lab Hour(s)
This course explores the role of ethics in achieving a good life. The goal is to encourage students to reflect about their motivations and to contemplate the sort of character they might aspire to build. Questions examined include: What virtues make a person good? To what extent is self-interest compatible with being a virtuous person? What makes life meaningful? Why should we act morally and show concern for others?
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