Contemporary Moral Issues

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. (PHIL 2306) Contemporary Moral Issues. Philosophy challenges students to understand, articulate and evaluate arguments from multiple points of view. Students evaluate the claims, presuppositions and reasoning of various positions, including one’s own, on contemporary social problems and analyze those problems using ethical and social theories. Students examine how ideas, values and other aspects of culture (including power and authority) shape and are shaped by human experience and institutions. Students practice respectful and thoughtful engagement on contentious matters, such as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, the relationship between ethics and religion, violence and war, animal ethics, sexual morality, gender issues, health care ethics, equality and discrimination, biotechnology and bioengineering, economic injustice, climate ethics and global hunger and poverty, among others; also taught at Galveston campus.