PHIL 003H: Honors Ethics and the Meaning of Life

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour

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Prerequisites: admission to the University Honors Program or con- sent of instructor

Description: Honors course corresponding to PHIL 003. Approaches one of the basic questions of value: How should one live? Covers classical and con- temporary discussions of issues such as the human good, human virtue, the role of pleasure and happi- ness, egoism and altruism, duty, the relativity and objectivity of value, the meaning of life, death, autono- my, integrity, and conscience.

Credit: Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is awarded for only one of PHIL 003 or PHIL 003H.