PHIL 204 — Contemporary Moral Issues
3 Lecture Hours, 3 Credits Prerequisites: ENGL 100 or ENGL 060 and PHIL 101 This course introduces several contemporary approaches to moral issues and decision-making. We will investigate what makes an action right and wrong for a person living within a social arrangement, and what principles of conduct should guide communal living. Questions we will discuss include: What matters and why? Does human nature imply the right conduct? What is the basis to evaluate action as being morally right or wrong? Does moral wrongness of an action provide decisive reason for not doing this action? What authorizes moral standards for social conduct? The course will address such social issues of the contemporary Western society as, capital punishment, same sex marriage, abortion, social liberty, drug control and other issues.