We make ethical decisions everyday, recognize or contest normative laws, rules, and principles. In making such evaluations we relate to a state of affairs in ethical terms, and justify our choices, attitudes, and behavior in the language of ethics. We are accountable subjects in our private and public lives. We feel responsible towards ourselves and others to explain why we act in the way we do. Nevertheless much of our ethical reasoning is habitual and our relation to the realm of ethical values is unclear to us; at times we find it difficult to give a theoretical justification of our ethical judgments. In these courses students will get a chance to reflect on their own notions of good life, right and wrong action by encountering different ethical positions, as well as to acquaint themselves with contemporary debates in applied ethics within different spheres such as business, law, environment etc. By doing so they will be able to question, modify and strengthen their relation to the sphere of ethical values, such as human rights, respect for persons, justice, equality, anti-sexism, anti-racism, respect for the environment, etc. and inquire into the new ethical problems contemporary technology brings about.
