Introduction to Ethics

What it covers

This unit teaches an appreciation of the historical roots of different ethical doctrines, showing how these are related to ideas about the good life, freeing people to identify, understand and choose between traditions of ethical thought. It helps students to develop an understanding of the relationship between ethics, communities, institutions, society and the environment required to enable people to make judgements about how to act and how to live if the conditions for communities are to be sustained. It also helps students understand the limitations and defects of prevailing ethical thought and enables students to identify, criticise and provide alternatives to the assumptions of social, economic and political programs that are undermining our global eco-systems.

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