This course focuses on developing the student's ability to engage in principled moral reasoning through an examination of classical and contemporary texts on ethics and discussions of particular moral dilemmas. Topics will be drawn from both the public and private sectors, including abortion, sexual harassment, distributive justice, capital punishment, and affirmative action. This course will introduce students to different examples of philosophical classics by reading such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Milton, Burke, Mill, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cornel West. The topics will include morality, knowledge, the self, power, violence, liberation and insight. PHI 305 Ethics and Leadership Online Credit 3 Examines the historic development and intellectual foundations of ethics with particular attention to the moral implications of contemporary ethical problems.
Emphasis is placed on the process of decision making as it relates to contemporary issues.