PHI - 230 Contemporary Moral Issues

3 Credit(s)
An examination of moral and social issues facing the contemporary world. Topics include animal and environmental ethics; conception and death in the medical context; hate literature and pornography; the ethics of violence. The principal aim is to teach students to think critically about their own views. To this end, philosophical attempts to apply various moral theories to these concrete problems will be assessed.

Prerequisite(s):

C in one of English Studies 12, Provincial English 12, English First Peoples 12, ENG 060, ENG 096 , or ENG 098 ; or C+ in ESL 092 and ESL 095 ; or English Assessment.

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