Thus, we will consider abortion, and in particular will look at the ongoing debate over partial birth abortion. We will consider capital punishment and will discuss recently highly-publicized executions. This course concerns itself with ethical controversies regarding such actions as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, sexual morality, sexual equality, discrimination and reverse discrimination. Consider, for example, abortion. Consider also euthanasia.
Society assumes an obligation to do so where animals are concerned.
These questions constitute but a small sampling of the kinds of questions this course addresses. These are questions about actions. Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Bentham, Mill have dealt with the question of how we ought to conduct our lives, and have proposed to answer it. Many non-philosophers answer this question by pointing to the will of God, and claiming that God s will determines what we ought and ought not to do. This view or theory is called supernaturalism.