This course will explore central themes in late-20th- and 21st-century normative ethics. Possible topics include moral theory and anti-theory, conceptions of rights, conceptions of wronging, the doctrines of double effect and doing and allowing, aggregation, the scope of our duty to aid, and nonidentity and its permutations.
This course will explore central themes in late-20th- and 21st-century normative ethics. Possible topics include moral theory and anti-theory, conceptions of rights, conceptions of wronging, the doctrines of double effect and doing and allowing, aggregation, the scope of our duty to aid, and nonidentity and its permutations.
