About This Course

The core aim of the course is to develop moral ideas of some influential philosophers from the ancient times through the modern and up to the contemporary period. Particular emphasis is given to the ideas of philosophers like Aristotle, Confucius, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, John Rawls and Aldo Leopold. The course is divided into the following three parts: 1. Personal Development 2. Normative Ethical Theories and Moral Education 3. The Practical Issues of Morality

The main objectives of the course are to: provide a general introduction to ethics, culture and morality describe a historical perspective of ethics, analyze the basic concepts and theories of ethics develop the understanding of ethical dilemmas and to formulate defensible solutions to the dilemmas examine different moral theories and their applications to a variety of important moral issues through moral education. The course will try to address the contemporary ethical issues and debates in world and develop better understanding of the rightness and wrongness of human action.