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Arts Graduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
HBM5101
Ethics
Justin Oakley
12 points + 4 hours per week + First semester + Clayton
Synopsis This subject aims to provide students with a basic
understanding of ethical theory, as a foundation for their studies in
bioethics. It deals with developments in meta-ethics since Hume, and with the
three main traditional perspectives in normative ethics: utilitarianism,
Kantianism, and virtue ethics.
Assessment Essay (2000 words): 20% + Essay (4000 words): 50% + Take-home
exam (2500 words): 30%
Preliminary reading
- Charlesworth M Life, death, genes and ethics ABC Books, 1989
- Nagel T What does it all mean? OUP, 1987
Prescribed texts
Different readings will be prescribed for each class. These readings are
included in the book of set readings for PHL2150 (Ethics), which will be
available for purchase in the first week of teaching from the Philosophy
department general office, room 907, Menzies building. Alternatively, the
readings will be available in the Main Library.
Recommended texts
- Scheffler S (ed.) Consequentialism and its critics OUP, 1988
- Singer P (ed.) A companion to ethics Blackwell, 1993
- Smart J J C and Williams B Utilitarianism: For and against CUP,
1973
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