PHIL2612 - History of Ethics

Semester 2, 2012  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Thomas Dougherty
Phone: +61 2 9036 6015
Email: thomas.dougherty@sydney.edu.au

Description

The nature of duty and the good: how we ought to live and what is valuable in life. A selective survey of Western normative ethical theory from Plato to Mill.

Assessments

1x2500wd essay (60%) and 1x2hr exam (40%)

Classes

1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

12 Junior credit points in Philosophy

Prohibitions

PHIL2512, PHIL3512

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