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Instructor: Kerah Gordon-Solmon

Here are some innocuous claims. Some states of affairs are better than others. We have moral reason to help bring about better states of affairs (i.e., those with less human suffering), which will sometimes be decisive. But we also have some license to favour our own interests, even at the expense of what is impersonally best. Third, we are subject to moral constraints, which limit what we can do in pursuit of our own, or others’, good.

This course will enquire into these three aspects of our moral lives, including how to navigate conflicts among them. The first unit will introduce each through a series of canonical texts (or excerpts). The second will delve into the inner workings of constraint-based morality. The third will shift our focus away from which acts are forbidden, permitted, or required to what gives an act moral worth, and matters of blame and praise.