6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1020816AER for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
This introductory unit gives an overview of the following topics:
1. What is morality and ethics/moral philosophy? Moral judgments. Four methods and sorts of ethics: normative, descriptive and applied ethics, and meta-ethics.
2. The main historical trends in ethics: Aristotle (virtue ethics), Immanuel Kant (deontological ethics), Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill (consequentialist and utilitarian ethics); Friedrich Nietzsche (moral criticism)
3. Contemporary ethics: existential philosophical ethics (Jean-Paul Sartre), discourse ethics and critical theory of society (Jürgen Habermas), ethics of justice in a pluralistic society (John Rawls), the capabilities approach and human development (Martha Nussbaum), ethics of care (Carol Gilligan).
4. Ethical questions in debates about for example: the moral status of the embryo, abortion, euthanasia, the moral status of animals, ecology, multiculturalism and the media
A syllabus is made available. The student will be given more information at the lectures
Additional reading:
Additional and obligatory reading will be made known during the lectures and made available.
The student can explain the important theories in ethics/morality philosophy in detail. The student can explain the issues at play in ethical theories. The student can reconstruct ethical theories and explain concepts. The student can apply ethical theories and concepts to moral problems.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Written: reconstruction of an ethical theory; explain ethical concepts; weigh up arguments from an ethical standpoint
This offer is part of the following study plans:
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Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Minor Minor Human Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: French-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-English (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Spanish-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Italian-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: German-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: English-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Minor Philosophy and Moral Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Frans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Engels (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Nederlands-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Engels (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Frans-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Engels-Duits (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Engels-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Applied Language Studies: Duits-Spaans (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Gender and Diversity (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Philosophy and Moral Sciences: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)