| Instructor: | Richard Lee (Office hours) | ||||||||
| Course number: | Philosophy
3923H
(SAFARI
number: 03065)
| Times: | MWF 9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
| Room: | MAIN
324
| Brief Description:
|
There are serious moral issues surrounding questions of life and
death. Topics that immediately come to mind are suicide, abortion,
euthanasia, and capital punishment. These moral issues will be addressed
together with principles of ethics central to these debates: Is human
life ethically more valuable than the life of non-human animals? Is
there a morally relevant distinction between killing someone and allowing
someone to die? Students must have the
consent of the Honors Director to enroll.
| Texts:
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Louis P. Pojman, editor, Life
and Death: A Reader in Moral Problems second edition
(Wadsworth, 2000) ISBN: 0-534-50825-1 | John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza, editors, Ethics: Problems & Principles (Harcourt, 1992) ISBN: 0-03-047527-9 |