The Substance Morality involves our behavior and the choices we make. More specifically, morality is generally understood to involve value , or some sense of ought . In some cases a particular decision seems to be universally acceptable. In other cases reasonable and morally conscientious persons disagree over the action that should be taken. This holds true for social as well as personal decisions.
Ethics is reflection upon moral choices and morally relevant human behavior.
These are the general issues and questions we will deal with in this course. We will do so by reading about ethics, reading ethics, a nd doing ethics. Crucial to this project will be our class discussions, particularly in the weekly small group sessions. You will not enjoy or benefit from this course unless you engage and test the various ideas and issues we will encounter, and attempt to articulate for yourself what is at stake in human moral activity and the practice of ethics. It is your task in this course to examine and explore the various points of view, and to understand the moral issues we will discuss.