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PHILOSOPHY
102
CONTEMPORARY MORAL
PROBLEMS
11FE031 KASUMI ODASHIMA
COURSE
DESCRIPTION -NO.1・Credits: 5
・Meeting Times: MTWThF 330-540
・Building: Denny Hall,
Seattle Campus
・Room: 316
・Enrollment: 30
http://uw.edu/maps/?DEN
COURSE
DESCRIPTION –NO.2・Instructor: Walter S. Clifton
・Course content
(1)cover contemporary moral issues
abortion/euthanasia/capital punishment/animal
right/ environment
(2)present competing ethical theories
utilitarianism/deontological theory/virtue ethics/
ethical egoism/Rawlsian theory
TEXTBOOK
・Publisher: Oxford University Press,
USA
・Publication Date: 20081013
・Pages: 960
・Author: Steven M. Cahn
→Professor of Philosophy
at The City University of
New York Graduate Center
・Editor: Peter Markie
→Curator’s Teaching Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Missouri
CONTENTS OF
TEXTBOOK
Ⅰ. Historical Source
→ranges from ancient Greece to the 20th century
classical thought: Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus
medieval views: Augustine, Aquinas
modern theories: Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant,
Bentham, Mill
Ⅱ. Modern Ethical Theory
→utilitarianism, Kantianism, egoism, relativism
Ⅲ. Contemporary Moral Problems
→ the discussion of abortion, euthanasia, famine relief,
animal right, environmentalism
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