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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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