Learning objectives
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Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course consists of two parts:
Moral philosophy I- The first part presents structures and normative criteria that characterize the main moral theories (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics). The course begins with a discussion of parts of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and will focus on the differences between virtue ethics and deontologic and utilitarian ethics and will finally consider some contemporary interpretations of Virtue Ethics.
Moral philosophy II:Moral Philosophy and Bioethics.
Bioethics is a ‘young’ discipline that was introduced in the 1970s. It constitutes a complex epistemological and normative challenge to contemporary moral philosophy. Philosophy and ethics are called to tackle previously unknown problems in an interdisciplinary context, arising from technology and moral pluralism. We shall consider bioethics as an interesting arena for a challenge among the difference ethical perspectives presented in Moral Philosophy I. Bioethics is a privileged area of inquiry to reflect on the ongoing reformulation of fundamental concepts in the moral tradition (person, nature, human nature, responsibility, animality, autonomy, freedom, etc.) and on the different methodological strategies that are being proposed.
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Bibliography
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Teaching methods
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Assessment methods and criteria
The integrated exam of Moral Philosophy (12 cfu) includes a written and an oral component. Moral Philosophy I only includes the written component.
The written examination (3 hours) consists in a set of five/six open questions on the topics of the first unit. The result of the written component (0-30) will count toward 50% of the whole grade.
Students must enroll online on Esse3. The written examination is listed as “partial exam”. It is important that students show up in person for the correction of the written exam, according to the indications provided by the instructor.
NOTA BENE: Written examinations do NOT take place in conjunction with the oral examinations. The first written examination will take place during the break between the first and the second unit. In the summer session two written examinations will take place; in the Fall and winter sessions (or extensions) only one written examination will take place.
Oral exam: The oral exam will focus on the readings of the second unit, which will be provided at the beginning of the class.
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