PHIL 331 - Modern Ethics

Upper Division

An investigation of the difference between good and evil and between virtue and vice; of the relationship of virtue to choice, to knowledge, to power, to pleasure, to happiness; of the relationship of the human person to God, to nature, to society; of the relationship of responsibility to freedom and necessity. Texts include Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Kant and Nietzsche.

Repeatable
No

Additional Notes
Previous course number: PHIL 131

Course credits: 4