The Theme and Its Purpose.
Ethics involves the study of moral imagination, moral judgment, and moral action.
Courses in the Ethics Theme are designed to strengthen these moral capacities. Ethics can raise our awareness of the implications of our acts, whether on ourselves, our fellows, our progeny, or the biosphere as a whole. It can increase our consciousness of the reciprocal obligations we inevitably undertake in our social roles. Ethics can help us to engage our ideals, to recognize their value, and to act in ways that are informed by them. It can remind us of our duties as employers and employees, as professionals, as citizens, as people inhabiting the earth, and as one generation linked to the generations that have come before us and those that will follow.