How am I to live? What ́s the right thing to do? Is there a way out of the ethical dilemmas people face in their professional lives? Is my personal happiness connected with morality? What is a virtue and is it important to my professional life? Through debate, students will confront their answers to these problems with arguments and ideas from philosophers and other relevant personalities. We will discuss these and other similar questions related to the origins or moral concepts, the possibility of rational agreement in matters of ethics, the grounds for the moral value of actions and the meaning and impact of concepts such as intention, character, outcome, duty, moral law, etc. We will use stories, films and case studies as prompts for our discussions. They aim to help develop conceptual and argumentative tools that allow students to address these questions correctly, understand the different alternative answers, and master criteria that help them compare and assess those possible answers.
- Teacher: Pedro António Monteiro Franco
- Teacher: Vasco Cordovil Cardoso
- Teacher: Joana Corrêa Monteiro