At the end of this course, students will have learned,

some challenges to human morality (amoralism, theism, relativism) and how to deal with them,

the basic concepts of metaethic (realism, subjectivism, intrinsic value),

the fundamental theories of normative ethics (consequentialism, virtue ethics, deontological/Kantian ethics),

the basic concepts of and problems in environmental ethics (speciesism, rights of animals, anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism)