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PHIL606 Values, Beliefs and Practical Ethics

10 cp
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Nil
Teaching Organisation This unit involves 150 hours of focused learning. The total includes formally structured learning activities such as lectures, tutorials, online learning, video-conferencing or supervision. The remaining hours typically involve reading, research, and the preparation of tasks for assessment.

This unit will survey some of the major faith traditions and their approach to a range of questions of morals and values. These approaches will be compared and contrasted to Christian treatments of such questions. Contemporary ethical theory will provide a context for this examination of different religious traditions through the discussion of such issues as the nature of moral reasoning, and the plausibility of various forms of ethical relativism.

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