MS Foot: Natural Goodness (53301; praktisch: 54302, 54402, 53401)- Lecturer
- Dr. Dawa Ometto
- Details
- Mittelseminar
2 cred.h, certificate, ECTS studies, ECTS credits: 6
Bachelor, Sprache Englisch, Note: This course will be taught in English
Time and place: Wed 10:15 - 11:45, PSG A 402 (außer Wed 10.5.2017, Wed 31.5.2017, Wed 21.6.2017, Wed 12.7.2017); single appointment on 20.4.2017 9:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 17:00, PSG A 402
starting 20.4.2017
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Note: This course will be taught in English
- Contents
- In this course, we will read Philippa Foot’s book Natural Goodness (2001). Foot argues for a modern version of Aristotelean virtue ethics, according to which the idea of human life sets the standard for the ethical evaluation of action. She thus argues against non-cognitivist accounts in meta-ethics (according to which ethical statements, in some sense, lack objectivity), and for a substantive conception of practical reasoning. Human practical rationality does not consist only in self-interested calculation, but also in following the precepts of virtue. Some topics that will accordingly be treated in this course are (i) cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism in meta-ethics (ii) practical reasoning (iii) happiness and the good life (iv) virtue approaches to normative ethics. If time allows, we will also read related texts by e.g. Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and John McDowell.
- Recommended literature
- Required Literature:
Foot, Philippa. 2001. Natural Goodness (Oxford University Press)
- ECTS information:
- Credits: 6
- Additional information
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2017:
- Philosophie, Modul A (M 5)
- Department: Chair of Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Mayr)
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