Description
This class will explore problems that make up the fabric of human life, and it will help you to ask better, smarter, and more interesting questions about your own life. This course will encourage you to rethink your moral beliefs and decide whether they need to be refined or improved. You will explore methods of moral decision making, basic ideas in applied ethics, what it means to lead a good life, and whether it is important to align your daily habits and goals with any certain moral code. The course will involve a service-learning project that will be incorporated into your Capstone Project, so that you can gain a deeper understanding of the way in which moral decision making impacts your community and the world at large.The course includes an analysis of the vocabulary, presuppositions and principles basic to moral evaluation and exploration of the major options in normative ethics as they are applied to selected issues in ethics.