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Course: 2024/2025

Moral Philosophy

(13807)

Bachelor in Humanities (Plan: 407 - Estudio: 213)

Coordinating teacher: GAITAN TORRES, ANTONIO

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 2º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

None in particular.

Objectives

The objective of this course is for the student to become familiar with the main ethical theories and be able to apply their fundamental concepts and distinctions in the analysis of moral disputes and controversies. In addition to this objective, mastering the argumentative skills necessary to argue about moral issues is another basic objective.

Skills and learning outcomes

Link to document

Description of contents: programme

The course is made up of six fundamental blocks. Each block spans approximately two weeks: 1. The object of Moral Philosophy 2. Foundational issues - subjectivism, relativism and moral nihilism 3. Utilitarianism 4. Kantian ethics 5. Virtue ethics 6. Applied issues

Learning activities and methodology

The course is structured around a master session (in which the structure of the debate and the fundamental concepts are exposed) and a practical session (in which texts are discussed and the theories and distinctions introduced in the master session are approached in depth). The student is expected to complete the class materials with additional readings, autonomously building each thematic block

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 60
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment

The assessment system revolves around three activities with the following weight in the final evaluation:

- Brief essay focused on one of the practical sessions (20%)
- Group presentation of a commentary text (20%)
- Final exam (60%)


In this course, students must not use artificial intelligence tools to carry out the work or exercises proposed by the teacher. In the event that the use of AI by the student gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of an exam or work required to accredit academic performance, the provisions of the Regulations of the Carlos III University of Madrid will apply - Law 3/2022, of February 24, on university coexistence.

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

Shafer Landau, R.. The Fundamentals of Ethics. Oxford University Press. 2016
Singer, P. Companion of Ethics. Blackwell. 1996
Williams, B. Ethics and the limits of philosophy. Harvard University Press. 2009

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.