Practical Ethics

This course will challenge you to examine your life from an ethical perspective. What should your goals and values be? We are living in a world in which some live in great affluence while others live in extreme poverty. Climate change poses a threat to both present and future generations, as well as to the natural environment. Is it enough to obey conventional moral rules? Other questions to be discussed include: abortion, euthanasia; the claim that all human life has equal value; the moral status of animals; and the ethics of what we eat. Topics of current interest may be added during the semester.