PHIL103: Moral and Political Philosophy

Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

• define ethics and moral philosophy;
  
• apply a definition of ethics to moral and political concepts such as justice and others;
  
• identify and describe the intrinsic value of philosophical investigation as an academic discipline; 
  
• use the works of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Aquinas, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to compare and contrast theories of ethics;
  
• identify and describe central issues and branches in ethics, including moral skepticism, reflective equilibrium, and utilitarianism, consequentialism, deontology, and natural law; and
  
• analyze how an ethical theory may influence policies in corporations and institutions and how an ethical theory may affect individual rights and liberties.