printer friendly pagePHIL 173: The Birth of Modern Moral Philosophy (PHIL 273)
Grads enroll in 273. In this course, we shall see the birth of modern moral philosophy and its break with medieval and early modern Aristotelian natural law theory. We shall go on to examine some of the most important movements and figures of modern moral philosophy from the 16th to the 18th centuries. We shall read Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), Samuel Pufendorf (1632-94), Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), Joseph Butler (1692-1752), Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), and Richard Price (1723-1791).
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Bobonich, C. (PI)
PHIL 173B: Undergraduate Introduction to Metaethics
This is an intensive, undergraduate-only introduction to, and survey of, contemporary metaethics. Can moral and ethical values be justified or is it just a matter of opinion? Is there a difference between facts and values? Are there any moral truths? Does it matter if there are not? Focus is not on which things or actions are valuable or morally right, but what is value or rightness itself. Prerequisites: 80, 181 and one ethics course. Please contact instructor for permission number.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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