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The aim of this lecture is to enable students to understand ethical questions, positions, arguments and to discuss them in a philosophically appropriate way.

The lecture gives a contemporary introduction to ethics, its main normative theories and some metaethical questions like: Is there moral truth? Can our moral beliefs be justified? What makes moral beliefs true? Are there moral facts?

Lecture inputs and discussions.

Oral.

General information on exams, dates and sign-on at the department:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/philtheol/pruefungen/index.html.de.

Harry J. Gensler: Ethics. A Contemporary Introduction, London and New York 1998.

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