Questions in fundamental ethics: moral identity in hermeneutical ethics

Academic year: 2009-2010 Course code module FLWFM00600 Semester: 2nd semester Credits: 6 Study load (hours) 168 Theory (hours): 30,00 Practice/Exercises(hours): Other (hours): Part-time program: 1 Instructor(s) Johan Taels Language of instruction: Dutch Semester exam information: exam in the 2nd semester Contract restriction information: 1. Prerequisites *Algemene competenties No specific prerequisites. *Sequentiality None 2. Objectives (expected learning outcomes) a profound insight in the most prominent contemporary paradigms of ethics acquaintanceship with the central notions of an 'hermeneutical ethics'   the competence to express a clear and balanced opinion on an ethical case  3. Course content Part 1 focusses on the complex and subtle interrelations between deontic ethics and virtue ethics (M.W. Baron, 'Three Methods of Ethics'). Part 2 develops an 'hermeneutical ethics' in discussion with key-texts of H.-G. Gadamer ('Truth and Method'), S. Kierkegaard ('Concluding Unscientific Postscript'), E. Levinas ('The Uselessness of suffering'), and J. Caputo ('Radical Hermeneutics').    4. Teaching method Direct contact: Lectures Personal work: Assignments - individual Paper - individual Supervised self-study 5. Assessment method Exam: Written, with oral presentation Continuous assessment: Assignments 6. Compulsory reading – study material H.-G. Gadamer, Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik, J.C.B. Mohr, Tübingen, 1972 (19603) 7. Recommended reading - study material -M.W. Baron, Ph. Pettit, M.. Slote, Three Methods of Ethics, Blackwell, 1999  -R. Crisp, M. Slote (eds.), Virtue Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2003 -D. Statman (ed.), Virtue Ethics. A Critical Reader, Edinburgh University Press, 1997 8. Tutoring laatste aanpassing: last update: 17/12/2009 13:43 johan.taels