Diploma Course in Comparative and Applied Ethics
Certificates, Modules and Units:
Certificate Course One: COMPARATIVE AND NORMATIVE ETHICS
Module One: Philosophical and Religious Ethics
Unit One (8 contact hours): Philosophical Ethics
This Unit engages in a comparative reflection over primary normative ethical theories.
Introduction: Ethical perspectives from universalism to relativism
Ethics of the Good (teleology) and the Right (deontology)
Natural Law and Virtue Ethics
Feminist ethics (including Care Ethics)
Unit Two (8 contact hours): Religious Ethics
This Unit features a comparison between the ethical worldviews of major religious traditions. It will also consider the basic question of the significance of religion in contributing toward the cultivation of an ethical consciousness.
Relationship between religion and ethics
Indic ethics
West Asian ethics
Contemporary ethical issues
Module Two: Social and Cultural Ethics
Unit Three (8 contact hours): Social Ethics
This Unit differentiates between major social and cultural ideologies and approaches with regard to the area of integral human development: liberal theories, socialist/communist theories, critical theory, capability approach.
Liberal (personalist) ethics
Liberationist (collectivist) ethics
Socially critical ethics (critical theory)
Developmental ethics (capability approach)
Unit Four (8 contact hours): Cultural Ethics
This Unit focuses on diverse cultural developments and how they contribute towards the creation of unique ethical perspectives and norms.
Classical, modern and post-modern ethics
Ethnocentrism and relativism
Cultural domination and assimilation (master-slave ethics: postcolonial and socially hierarchical critique)
Art and ethics
Certificate Course Two: APPLIED ETHICS
Module Three: Ethics of Science & Technology and Bioethics
Unit One (8 contact hours): Ethics of Science and Technology
This Unit features a reflection over various aspects of scientific development—their assumptions and consequences—in relationship with normative ethics.
Introduction: social and ethical aspects of science and technology
Technology and ethics
Cyberethics
Environmental ethics
Unit Two (8 contact hours): Bioethics
This Unit covers ethical reflection over divergent perspectives pertaining to various aspects of human life understood biologically, and the value of animal life. Key issues in these areas will be covered.
Ethics of medical science
Biomedical ethics: birth and death issues
Biomedical ethics: other issues
Animal rights
Module Four: Legal, Political and Economic Ethics
Unit One (8 contact hours): Legal Ethics
This Unit has to do with the relationship between law and ethics in theory and practice.
Fundamental rights and due process of law (Constitutional morality)
Natural Justice and Conflict of interest
Compensatory mechanisms and punishment in Civil and Criminal Law
Social inclusion (minority rights, affirmative action, migration)
Unit Two (8 contact hours): Political and Economic Ethics
This Unit deals with the ethical assumptions and implications of political and economic policy in the public and private sphere.
State and individual: responsibility and accountability
Sovereignty and inter-national ethics
Business ethics
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