Principles of Ethical and Moral Reasoning
| Course Code | PFPR-104 |
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| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | How do you know as an individual if you pass the ethics test? As an individual, you can ask yourself what society would be like if everyone conducted their moral selves like you do. Would society be better or worse? By asking yourself this question, you are really testing the universality of your behaviour. Immanuel Kant, a famous scholar of ethics, suggests we should only act in ways that we would want everyone else in the same situation to act. We should also consider anyway that we can improve our moral life to make society better. This is the essence of this course. If your future career involves work in law enforcement, then remember that people in positions of authority and those who enforce laws and regulations, should and will be held to a higher level of accountability about their ethical and moral actions. This course will help students to identify such issues in society and in themselves. |