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Paper 3204 This paper is subscription-led, so may not be available. Please discuss with your tutor. Ethics II: Religious Ethics Description This paper is designed to introduce students to the ethics of a non-Christian religion (its concepts, variety, history, major figures, and some of its classic texts), to the critical comparison of different religious ethics, and to the analysis of practical issues in politics and economics. The course aims to cover a lot of theoretical, practical, and historical territory, as well as to induct candidates into careful comparative analysis of two religious ethical traditions. Candidates will be prepared for the two parts of the examination paper by introductory lectures on “A [Muslim or Jewish or Hindu etc] Vision of Moral Life” and 2 tutorials on concepts and methods, followed by classes on concrete moral issues in political and economic ethics. Aims The aim of the Religious Ethics paper is to introduce students to the ethics of a non-Christian religious tradition, to its critical comparison with Christian ethics, and to the analysis of practical issues in the fields of politics and economics in terms of either Christian ethics or a non-Christian religious ethical tradition or both. Objectives The course aims to enable candidates to demonstrate understanding of: principal concepts and methodological issues in a non-Christian tradition of moral thought how to relate non-Christian moral concepts and sources to Christian moral concepts and sources concrete issues in the light of Christian and non-Christian religious moral sources and concepts how to marshal relevant material in support of an argument In the course of demonstrating the above, the course also aims to enable candidates, secondarily, to demonstrate some understanding of: the moral thought of relevant major figures in the history of a non-Christian religious ethical tradition the internal variety of this ethical tradition the relation of this ethical tradition to major schools of Western moral philosophy (e.g., those of Aristotle, Kant, and Utilitarianism) and to current intellectual trends (e.g., political liberalism, feminism, postmodernism, human rights discourse) Delivery 8 lectures; 8 classes; 4 tutorials. 2 Assessment is by a 2,500 word essay submitted by noon on Monday of Week 1 of Hilary Term in the second year of the Honour School (link to submission details here) plus a two-hour written examination in TT of the second year of the Honour School. Reading list