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PHI204   Ethics: Theoretical and Practical   (20 credits)

 
Year Running: 2016/2017
Credit level: F5

Description

How should we live? How should we conduct ourselves? What duties do we owe t9 other people? Are there certain things we should never do in any circumstances? If so what things are they? Do questions like the foregoing have determinate, correct answers? If so can we know what they are? If so, how? These questions and questions like them are the subject matter of ethics. We will be studying and thinking about such questions by engaging with classical and/or contemporary texts.

 

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Teaching Methods

Delivery Type Hours
Independent 166.5
Lecture 22.0
Seminar 11.0
Tutorial 0.5
 

Methods of assessment

Assessment Type Duration % of formal assessment Semester
Course Work 0.0 50 % S1
Exam 2.0 50 % S1
 

Teaching methods and assessment displayed on this page are indicative for 2023-24.