| Honors Colloquium: The Ethics of Life and Death | Richard Lee |
| Philosophy 3923 H | Autumn 2000 |
| Instructor: | Richard Lee (Office hours) |
| Course number: | Philosophy 3923H |
| Times: | TT 2:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. |
| Room: | MAIN 422 |
| SAFARI number: | 03004 |
| Brief Description: | There are serious moral issues surrounding questions of life and death. Topics that immediately come to mind are suicide, abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment. These moral issues will be addressed together with principles of ethics central to these debates: Is human life ethically more valuable than the life of non-human animals? Is there a morally relevant distinction between killing someone and allowing someone to die? Students must have the consent of the Honors Director to enroll. |
| Texts: |
Louis P. Pojman, editor, Life and
Death: A Reader in Moral Problems First edition (Jones and
Bartlett, 1993) or Second edition (Wadsworth, 2000) John Martin Fischer & Mark Ravizza, editors, Ethics: Problems & Principles (Harcourt, 1992) |
| Notice: Class on Tuesday, August 29th is cancelled so that students can attend a University forum on Monday's campus tragedy (a murder-suicide). Students registered for the colloquium on the ethics of life and death should attend that forum, which will be in the Union ballroom at 12:30. |