Welcome to Introduction to Ethics

This course will likely be different from what you would expect from other schools, like LCC or the U of O.

• We will NOT take ethics to be an exercise in moral dilemmas, immediately jump into debate, with a new dilemma every week.
• We WILL take time to survey the various ethical theories that emerge from various worldviews. We will then see how they provide different choices for action.
• We will spend time considering an older conception of ethics, which takes character as the starting point, rather than dilemmas.

So welcome, and expect to read and talk a lot about some very engaging topics. Even more, strive to grow in virtue, and be an agent of goodness in the world around you!