Applying Ethics: Reflecting on Particular Moral Issues

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This is a course in applied ethics, which (along with normative ethics and meta-ethics) is one of the three main subfields of ethics. Hence, the point of this course is to seek answers to comparatively narrow ethical questions about particular moral issues. Examples of such issues are freedom of speech, world poverty, sexual morality, procreation, animal rights, the death penalty, abortion, immigration, and parent-child relations. Accordingly, this course may delve into questions such as the following. What duties do we have toward the destitute? Should I have children? Is the death penalty immoral?.