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Course Name	Turkish	Etik
	English	Ethics
Course Code	ITB 219E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Görkem Giray
Course Objectives		The main objectives of the course are as follows: 1. To comprehend the meaning, scope and fundamental questions of ethics, 2. To learn how to construct arguments and what the most common fallacies in reasoning are, 3. To learn the basic concepts of moral philosophy, 4. To comprehend the basic arguments and problems/shortcomings of the prominent moral theories, 5. To develop analytical and critical thinking abilities on various moral problems that we face in our daily lives.
Course Description		This course introduces students to the meaning and content of ethics, various moral theories, their historical and intellectual origins, and contemporary issues in moral philosophy. In addition, this course is organized to enable students to gain a basic awareness of ethical concepts such as good and bad, right and wrong, moral and immoral, just and unjust, value, duty, virtue, utility, happiness, care, etc. and to understand different perspectives on morality.
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Textbook		Shafer-Landau, R. (2019). Living Ethics: An Introduction with Readings. Oxford University Press.
Other References		Rachels, J., & Rachels, S. (2019). The Elements of Moral Philosophy (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. MacKinnon, B., & Fiala, A.G. (2018). Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues (9th ed.). Cengage Learning. Angier, T. (2023). Ethics: The Key Thinkers (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury Academic. Timmons, M. (2022). Moral Theory: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. Feldman, F. (1978). Introductory Ethics. Prentice-Hall, Inc. Norman, R. (1998). The Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

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