PHI 102
Ethical Foundations · 3 credits · Spring 2027
Requirements
This course is open only to freshman students entering their first or second semester. If you believe that you are eligible, please contact First Year Programs at UGF@jjay.cuny.edu.This section is part of a linked cohort open only to incoming freshman students. Students must register for the following linked sections: PHI 102-FY48 ENG 101-FY47 If you believe you are eligible, please contact ugf@jjay.cuny.edu
About this course
Ethics is the discipline that asks the questions: 'What is the right thing to do? and how do we know it is right?'. The course looks at some of the most influential theories of rightness and goodness, and then applies these theories to questions of relevance to the creation and maintenance of a modern, just society, such as: How do we educate people to be good; Is goodness something all humans hold in common, or is it merely the name we give to whatever our individual cultures judge to be good; And how do our individual differences, such as race, sex, gender, wealth, and time and place of birth, affect our ethical interactions.
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