Ethics

Major Western ethical traditions as they apply to selected contemporary ethical problems, with special consideration to Jewish and Christian perspectives.

Addresses a special topic in ethics of current interest to faculty & students.

Explores the nature and definition of disability, impact of disability on well-being, technological advances and disability, embodiment, and intersectional justice.

This course explores the moral limits on war in its means, ends, and aftermath, considering debates about just-war theory, pacifism, and realism. Additionally, the course focuses on the moral psychology and experiences of soldiers.

Explore the anthropocentric assumptions of Western society and the challenges posed to those assumptions by ethicists, theologians, animal scientists, and activists. Trace the dominant philosophical and Christian theological approaches to concern for animals.

This course examines the concepts of trauma, moral injury, and psychological damage and repair within the context of race, sexual violence, and war. Particular attention is given to concepts of self and social healing and the relationship between them.

This course explores the relationship between faith and politics in historical and contemporary contexts. Examining the concept of a """faithful citizen

Theological and philosophical analysis of the Anthropocene, impact on human/non-human life, impact on self-understanding of human beings, relationship to nature, climate change, new forms of responsiblity, new forms of justice.

A capstone course which integrates academic work and service pursued for concentration, topics determined by professor and research projects of students.

Topic in Ethics chosen by the student and approved by the professor and the Director of the Ethics Program.