HNRS-120 | The Moral of our Story

Full Title: The Moral of our Story

Topic Description:

The theme for this course in moral philosophy is “The Moral of Our Story.” We will engage in moral reasoning by reading the accounts of slaves, POWs, holocaust survivors, and also by examining important events in the 20th century such as the bombing of Hiroshima and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Through these non-fiction narratives we will gain insight into questions such as: What makes some moral decisions better than others? What are our capacities to be good and to be bad? Is there a real difference between right and wrong, or is morality “all relative”? We might find that these narratives show that our stories have things in common, and that we might say there is a moral to our story.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2014