Topics

MORAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Why be Moral?              

  • Relativism: What is it?              

  • Relativism: Problems with this theory               

  • Moral Development: Kohlberg /Dewey /Gilligan

ETHICAL THEORIES

  • Moral Reasoning                                            

  • Moral Life: Virtue, Knowledge                                              

  • Hedonism / Egoism     

  • Teleological Approaches

  • Ethical Egoism             

  • Rule Utilitarianism                                          

  • Rights: Libertarianism                                     

  • Deontological Approaches

  • Natural Law    

  • Kantian Theory                                               

  • Prima facie Duties                                            

  • Pragmatism /Feminism                                     

  • Existentialism / Determinism                          

  • Ethics and Religion                                          

  • Other Ethical Theories: Relativism Reconsidered

APPLICATIONS to CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS

  • Death Penalty

  • Medical Ethics-Euthanasia -Physician Assisted Suicide

  • Medical Ethics-Cloning

  • Sexual morality- premarital sex

  • Legal recognition for same sex marriages