INTRODUCTORY ETHICS

PHILOS 341

A philosophical study of some of the major moral issues in contemporary society, such as those concerning abortion, euthanasia, punishment, property, politics, sex, nuclear disarmament, and world hunger.

PHILOS 543

Intensive study of ethical theory, or of one or more ethical theories or moral philosophers of the present or modern period. Variable content.

ENVIRST/PHILOS 441

Adequacy of ethical theories in handling such wrongs as harm to the land, to posterity, to endangered species, and to the ecosystem itself. Exploration of the view that not all moral wrongs involve harm to humans. Inquiry into the notion of the quality of life and the ethics of the "lifeboat" situation.

PHILOS 941

Seminar on ethics.

PHILOS 541

Ethical theories and problems as discussed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.