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2025-2026 Catalog

HPHI 302 - Introduction to Philosophical Ethics

Credit Hours: 3

This course is an introduction to ethical reasoning through a review of influential ethical theories, such as utilitarianism, Kantianism, virtue theory, African moral theories, and theories of justice, and critical discussions of the arguments concerning contemporary moral issues such as abortion, sexual ethics, biomedical ethics, animal rights, environmentalism, race-related ethical concerns such as racism, profiling, reparations and more. Historical and contemporary readings and figures, Western and non-Western, male and female, will be discussed.